> physchological studies have more than adequately shown > the large deviation of mental stability in truly gifted > individuals This is a common misconception

> physchological studies have more than adequately shown > the large deviation of mental stability in truly gifted > individuals This is a common misconception. If, for example, one looks at physicians as a group (the occupational class with the highest so-called IQ), they are in general more stable and mentally healthier than the rest of the population. If one ventures into the realm of savants, then those people are, by definition, not normal, so anything goes. But they are small in number.