I remember in an Empirical Analysis/Statistics class I took in college we did a unit on IQ testing. The funny thing about most of the people (that were discussed in our text, that is) who tested more than 1 SD from the mean was that very few of them could actually function in "real world" terms. Totally smart in academic terms, yeah, but had problems with social operations like communicating with others or even simple stuff like dressing themselves or whatnot.
Which would explain the fashion sense of most physicists, I guess...
Anyway, it was the same deal with Einstein et al.
Of course, those with sub-85 IQs had even bigger problems, but that goes without saying.
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