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A cursory search yields that actually mental health is correlated with academic achievement (and thus mental health problems must be anticorrelated): https://w
by mjfl 8y ago
A cursory search yields that actually mental health is correlated with academic achievement (and thus mental health problems must be anticorrelated):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4443903/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4443903/
Of course, this is "academic achievement" as in getting a 4.0 at Stanford, not creating a new field of mathematics...
I imagine your question would be hard to investigate as many of these high achieving mathematicians are rare outliers and would defy statistics on population averages...
- dragonwriter 8y agoGiven the way mental disorders are defined, that's kind of unsurprising; adverse impacts to work, school, etc are required to diagnose many disorders.
- chx 8y agoWell, of course, Cantor, Gödel, Nash, Grothendieck, these are not everyday people.