So - a bunch of people utterly convinced that they are smarter than the people they’re studying have concluded that smart people agree with them. This isn’t science, it’s neurosis.
Some wag once said of academics that they’ve learned more and more about less and less until they know absolutely everything about nothing, and absolutely nothing about everything else.
What troubles me is that they don’t know what they don’t know. Outside of their field, PhDs tend to cluster on the far left of the Dunning-Krueger curve.
Who'da thunk it?
Why highly intelligent people suffer from more mental and physical disorders bigthink.comA new paper published in the journal Intelligence reviews the literature and explores the mechanisms that possibly underlie this connection.
The results showed that highly intelligent people are 20% more likely to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), 80% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, 83% more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety, and 182% more likely to develop at least one mood disorder.