The Mensa fallacy - by Emil O. W. Kirkegaard

Known since 1971 (at least)

Back in 2015 at ISIR, a researcher gave a presentation about mental illness and intelligence, reporting it was elevated at high intelligence levels, along with all kinds of other issues. This was later published as a paper in 2018. Karpinski, R. I., Kolb, A. M. K., Tetreault, N. A., & Borowski, T. B. (2018). High intelligence: A risk factor for psychological and physiological overexcitabilities. Intelligence, 66, 8-23. High intelligence is touted as being predictive of positive outcomes including educational success and income level. However, little is known about the difficulties…

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