Having a High IQ May Lead to Increased Risk of Mental Illness

[packman]

NOW THIS EXPLAINS TRUMP - His high I.Q. is leading him down the path of mental illness and through the Looking Glass.





A new study “High intelligence: A risk factor for psychological and physiological overexcitabilities” published in Intelligence says that extremely intelligent individuals have a much greater risk of suffering from a range of psychological and physiological disorders.



http://thriveworks.com/blog/higher-iq-increased-risk-for-mental-illness/

[bluecollar2]

1. doesn't matter

He's still an asshole.

[samnsara]

2. as a psych grad student i administered and scored a LOT of..

IQ tests....and Trump....is no genius. The way he refuses to learn anything new, doesn't apply past lessons, doesn't foresee consequences, internalizes success/externalizes failure.... He wouldn't even be able to sit still long enough for the dang test. Hes lucky..thats all. But that's about to run out too!

[RKP5637]

5. Generally, IMO, only stupid people brag about their IQ. n/t

[htuttle]

19. Dunning-Kruger Effect

[RKP5637]

20. Definitely!!! n/t

[RKP5637]

3. If one thinks too much about the insanity of humanity, that will do one in. n/t

[safeinOhio]

4. High IQ?

Let's see his college records. I'm not buying his words on anything

[MoonRiver]

6. Chumpy does NOT have a high IQ.

Why are you pushing such a claim?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. I'd want to see that study replicated

before lending it much credence.

Alas, studies like this are almost never replicated, leading to what amounts to yet another urban legend that people foolishly believe.

[MoonRiver]

9. Plus, WHY is the OP associating the Moron with High IQ?

I really would like to know.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. Perhaps he's being ironic

and didn't bother with the sarcasm tag.

[caraher]

14. I think it's just a joke

[packman]

16. If inquiring minds want to know

Just being a pisser that's all--

[caraher]

10. The study strikes me as fundamentally problematic

There's a huge selection bias involved - they surveyed Mensa members. Mensa members are a subset of the high-IQ population who have chosen to join an organization centered around its members' IQ test scores, indicating that for whatever reason, they find their IQ and the IQs of fellow members salient enough to make that investment.

From the abstract:

The present study surveyed members of American Mensa, Ltd. (n = 3715) in order to explore psychoneuroimmunological (PNI) processes among those at or above the 98th percentile of intelligence. Participants were asked to self-report prevalence of both diagnosed and/or suspected mood and anxiety disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and physiological diseases that include environmental and food allergies, asthma, and autoimmune disease. High statistical significance and a remarkably high relative risk ratio of diagnoses for all examined conditions were confirmed among the Mensa group 2015 data when compared to the national average statistics.

A more conservative reading of their results is that they correlate with the characteristics of Mensa members, only one of which is high IQ test scores.

You can download a full text .pdf of the study here: High intelligence: A risk factor for psychological and physiological overexcitabilities

[CatMor]

8. No way does trump have a high IQ.....

He's not even smart enough to realize how stupid he is.

[DavidDvorkin]

11. A implies B does not mean that B implies A.

[cos dem]

12. The OP seems quite pointless in context. Clearly one can have extremely low IQ and still be ...

severely mentally ill.

[drray23]

15. strange because there are a lot of other studies

that shows people having a job involving high cognitive functions (writers, scientists, etc...) tend to live longer with a better quality of live. If you use your brain all the time, your cognitive functions deteriotate much more slowly. I know plenty of older scientists well within their 70's or even 80's that are still very sharp.
Now of course, none of that applies to Trump given that he is on the other end of the scale.

[packman]

17. COME ON FOLKS - Catch that irony ball

He says he has a high I.Q. - we all know that ain't so. But , he does have quite a range of psychological and physiological disorders--- soooo I was just being (what I thought) a joker about one thing and not the other.
Obviously the guy is nuts

[smirkymonkey]

18. Umm, I don't think Trump's mental illnesses have anything to do with having a high IQ.

High IQ people are more prone to anxiety and depression, that is true, but that is not Trump's problem.

He is a malignant narcissist, a sociopath and probably a lot of other things but none of those things solely inflict only IQ people. I think you have it all wrong here.

On edit: the article specifically mentions anxiety and depression. No mention at all of dark triad mental illnesses.

[cwydro]

21. No way that moron has a high IQ.

Lmao.

[Skittles]

22. there is no WAY that fucking moron has a high IQ

that's as made up as his crowd sizes