3. TIL people with higher IQs are found to suffer from more mental health problems....

TIL people with higher IQs are found to suffer from more mental health problems. While data shows highly intelligent people have a greater life expectancy, it found higher IQs result in increased reports of mental health problems like depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD and others.

I wonder how many people on this site would be so intelligent in a face to face conversation without using the Internet. My guess is 95-98%. I have an IQ of 138 so I could join MENSA but I would be. A very small fish in that group.

A quotient measure is just that. There are 9 types of intelligence and most people only excel in some of them, that includes people with extreme IQ. The areas that I would lack in are intra-personal, interpersonal and existential. So I'm not great at understanding inner self, not too good with people and I don't have any idea why we are here.

My greatest talent is music. I think if I went deaf it would be a death sentence for me. I'm kind of prone to depression too.

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