Gifted and average-functioning hearing impaired adolescents were examined for their ability to perceive that still water remains horizontal regardless of the degree to which the container is tilted. The impact of bottle shape and subjects’ gender on this perception was also assessed. Gifted students were found to perform better on this task than average functioning students and the straight-sided containers were found to induce more errors than containers with curved sides, particularly among the average functioning. Among the average functioning adolescents, females were found to perform at a slightly lower level than males on some bottle positions. Implications of the findings and their similarity or dissimilarity to previous research are discussed.
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