Word: nicholais
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...actress Britt Ekland, 30, former wife of Comedian Peter Sellers, and her companion for the past two years, Lou Adler, 38, millionaire record producer who rode to success on a wave of surfing music in the '60s: their first child, her second, a son; in London. Name: Nicholai Ekland Adler...
...arriving at his correlation between intelligence and emotional illness, Dr. Nicholai used predicted rank list (prl) as his measure of intelligence. (The Admissions Office figures a prl for each entering student, taking into consideration his secondary school rank in class, the average of his College Board achievement scores, and his College Board verbal aptitude score...
...then checked his results by using the verbal aptitude score alone as his intelligence criterion. Some people consider it a better measure than prl, Dr. Nicholai said, because it does not take motivation into account...
...Nicholai has a hypothesis to explain his finding. He believes that the extremely intelligent person is liable to develop intellectually at the expense of other aspects of his personality. Such an individual derives all his satisfaction from his intellectual superiority...
...Nicholai's data, a high percentage of the psychiatric dropouts had a diagnosis of depression...