High Intelligence is often associated with the kind of dramatic unhappiness that leads people to suicide. ...
Last month, however, the British Medical Journal published a study that suggested a very different picture. In one of the largest studies on suicide ever conducted, researchers found that men with especially low scores on intelligence tests are two to three times more likely than others to kill themselves. And men with low IQ scores and highly educated parents were at the highest risk of all. ...
But a 1993 study on Israeli adolescents linked suicide to high intelligence.
In most of the Western world, he points out, the likelihood of suicide increases with age. ...