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I'm not going to research this, but I've seen stats that show the extreme high iq people tend to have a much lower tendency toward real (diagnosed) mental illne

I'm not going to research this, but I've seen stats that show the extreme high iq people tend to have a much lower tendency toward real (diagnosed) mental illness. Eccentricity, otoh...

wisty 14y ago
Latent inhibition (being easily distracted) is correlated with IQ some mental illness. Depression is another one. On the other hand, other mental illnesses could be negatively correlated either because they inhibit high IQ (too crazy to do the test / go to school), or IQ helps deal with them (outsmarting the illness), or they don't get diagnosed because the person is otherwise able to cope with life (to smart to be diagnosed).
jlgreco 14y ago
That may very well be the case, but there certainly have been some high profile exceptions. Howard Hughes anyone?
- dmix 14y ago
  Nietzsche, Robert Schumann (composer) and Tesla are also notable. If we factor in brilliant writers who shot themselves. Well, that list is quite long.
  - jlgreco 14y ago
    John Nash too. Not sure how he slipped my mind.
  - joshu 14y ago
    Dylan Thomas hypothesis?
- tsotha 14y ago
  Hughes was pretty normal until his later years. That may have been garden-variety senility.
Groxx 14y ago
Or do they simply seem to be functioning well enough (ie, being productive) that they don't care to get tested?