I'm sure this article "The Outsiders" from the Prometheus society has been posted here before: 216.224.180.96/~prom/oldsite/articles/Outsiders.html Summary: i

I'm sure this article "The Outsiders" from the Prometheus society has been posted here before: 216.224.180.96/~prom/oldsite/articles/Outsiders.html Summary: it's well known that high IQs are linked to maladjustment in later life. I sort of question if this 'bipolar' diagnosis is really a true bipolar disorder, or just an observed similarity between bipolar traits and high IQ thinking patterns. Acute awareness and overdeveloped imagination can lead to exceptionally strong emotions about things that wouldn't even register to "normal" people (highly gifted children are often noted for some strange things like hypersensitivity to touch and color as well as both the intensity _and passing speed_ of their emotions). Simultaneously hyper-rationalization can cause those emotions to be checked rather forcefully even to the extend of flat affect (ala "Ender"). I wonder if the exterior effect could be seen as irrational mood swings, especially from a multi-choice survey... It is a little frustrating that the sample is an extremely limited 22-23 years of age... I imagine that this age group is far more prone to _self-report_ behaviors that could be interpreted as bipolar behavior as it's a relatively unstable period of life to begin with, especially for gifted students who will selectively be entering high pressure job markets as opposed to their less competitive peers who will be settling into long-term careers. Also, 10 IQ points is less than one standard deviation from the norm (a SD of IQ being defined as 15 points), so perhaps "above average intelligence" is a bit more accurate than "high intelligence" (I think 2 standard deviations is when you start talking about "gifted"ness). It would be interesting to see the wings of the distribution, although a sample of just 2000 would likely not spread much light there.