Reply #73: I don't think that's true... [View All]

[sans qualia]

At the risk of looking like one of those aforementioned annoying people who corrects other people all the time, didn't Terman's study of gifted children show that contrary to pretty much everyone's expectations, more intelligent people actually have fewer emotional and psychological problems than the general population? Granted, it was done ages ago, and Terman was a eugenicist, but that doesn't invalidate the results.

Although you are right when it comes to profoundly gifted individuals (defined as IQ 180+, I think). I'm pretty sure a later study found that they tend to have lots of issues.