[Retric]

Except we are looking for the extreme outliers. Bill Gates was arrested, Steve Jobs and Wozniak made blue boxes and they went on to be the 'model' Americans. Feynman is famous for breaking a host of security rules. So, you may be rejecting 50% of the top 1% of 1% of 1% in favor of those less talented.

[tehlike]

we will never know what the real numbers are. Same argument goes other way: Elon Musk was never arrested, Einstein when he came to USA didn't have any convictions (AFAIK). What this says is there is no shortage of people with smarts.

[Retric]

ED: Not sure on the credibility of a quick google search, but Einstein may have been arrested which was the original benchmark used.

[tehlike]

didn't know - wikipedia didn't have this, can you point me to a source?