I always thought the advent of the internet would expose Absolute Pitch for the fraud it is, and that it would be revealed as many orders-of-magnitude more common than previously thought.
Apparently that isn't the case (although when I was a child, they said "one-in-a-million," and now, they're saying "one-in-ten-thousand") - well, it amounted to some really good party tricks for my parents! (Seriously, it did, when I was like, four - they'd play a blob of notes on the piano, and I'd cruise in from the next room and play the same blob of notes.)
If there are any scientists or professors out there looking to study this stuff, let me know - I'll be happy to volunteer, for all that's not worth. The paper can be titled, "What Happens When a Talented Infant Does Nothing To Cultivate Said Talent." In all seriousness, nobody has done so much as a party trick on me for the past 20-30 years, so there's your research (don't worry, I won't go test myself in my undoubtedly out-of-tune piano while you're mulling things over).