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by kurtv 2066 days ago
I think this assumes a correlation between high IQ and fringe personality, which is a bit of a hollywood myth. I remember reading in "Understanding Psychology as a Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Statistical Inference" by Zoltan Dienes that there is little correlation between IQ and mental illness. This study seems interesting in correlating IQ and personality traits: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6480832/