[jimmygrapes]

I believe this is a central premise of Peter Watts' Rifters series, related to submarines and astronauts and such, wherein "broken" people are considered more resilient to heavy shit than the equally capable/trained people who may more likely break when faced with said heavy shit.

[fc417fc802]

There's broken and then there's just outliers. There are also small clusters that aren't the norm but aren't really outliers either. (Also Watts writing is fantastic.)