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Standard mental health tests may be inaccurate for highly intelligent people
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Standard mental health tests may be inaccurate for highly intelligent people
Psychologists and the public alike have frequently debated whether exceptional cognitive ability comes with a cost to emotional well-being. A new analysis suggests that we may not be able to answer this question because the standard tools used to diagnose depression and distress may become inaccurate when applied to highly intelligent people. The researchers found that as intelligence scores rise, the questions on common mental health surveys lo…
Imagine a world where your very high intelligence could ironically blur the paths of your emotional well-being. Fascinating, no? Researchers from the University of Gdańsk in Poland recently highlighted a disturbing reality in a study published in the magazine Intelligence: the usual instruments for measuring mental health may not be reliable for people with exceptionally high intelligence. The biased measure of mental health among the gifted Div…
Standard mental health tests may be inaccurate for highly intelligent people. Higher intelligence scores were associated with worse mental health. But for participants with high intelligence, the link between the specific questions and the general psychol
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