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11 May 2009, 6:01 pm

Sand wrote:
It is extremely dangerous to generalize about the capabilities of mentally ill people. That Nash was an extraordinary mathematician does not generalize to all schizophrenic excel in mathematics any more than to accept that all alcoholics are as talented as Poe or, by inversion, that all mathematicians are schizoid.

For the record, schizoid today refers to a very different condition than schizophrenia (although it is sometimes grouped with the schizotypal spectrum).

Michjo wrote:
Many of the gene's that cause schizophrenia have actually been positively selected in regards to evolution. So there is a relationship between schizophrenia and intelligence. Of course, not all schizophrenics are intelligent, but most traits tend to follow a normal distribution.

I can't remember the source, but I did hear once that schizophrenics displayed poor abilities overall and lower intelligence, but on some tasks schizotypals showed superior abilities, so we might be looking at a sickle cell anemia situation or something.


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11 May 2009, 9:39 pm

I would like to add that I don't appreciate very much the studying of psychology itself, it's learning recycled ideas instead of thinking them yourself, your conclusions become mechanical. That's why I think the best people who understand the human brain works probably didn't study anything related and is an unknown person.

Also I have a theory about why they show us the ostrich hiding their head example. It's not something very common in them yet they portray ostriches as always doing that, I think is a way to teach kids a lesson: "just because you don't see something it doesn't mean they can't see you".