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I don't get your point. Nash outcome was very very good. He stayed out of hospitals and didn't take his medicine, after his initial stints with hospitalisation.

>The intelligence can do nothing once the hardware goes, except weave more elaborate conspiracies and paranoid fantasys

Why do you write this when I post evidence of the opposite? Do at least have some kind of backing to your statement.

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The linked german wikipedia descibe Nash's illness quite different from the english wikipedia. With the german article being less specific about the illness and outcome.

Though, both are somewhat clear that the illness took him 20+ years of his life, which might be not a good proof for high IQ helps with mental illness.

I wouldn't know, the link is dead.

edit: No his outcome was good. He didn't die from it, he didn't spend his life locked up. It's absolutely ridiculous to argue the effect of IQ on outcomes from this one example tho. I posted several studies, that between them cites numerous studies, all based on data collected on 1000s of persons. A German wiki articles angle on Nash's illness is seriously a waste of everyone's time.

The url has a dot at the end, which is missing in the link.

Nashes work declined greatly with the full onset of the sickness and never fully recovered.

That your only work declined is a very good outcome for an illness with as bad outcomes as schizophrenia. Like if you shattered both your legs, but ended up walking again while not able to compete in the olympics 100 meter sprint, would be a good outcome.

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