I would suggest that a lot of the top musicians and artists did poorly in school, and many of the probably have learning disabilities. That seems to be fairly common with very creative people.

I would love to see some statistics to back up that statement. How many? What is the percentage of top musicians and artists who did badly in school? How does it compare to the number of emminent scientists who did badly? How does that compare to the number of everyday Joes and Jills who did badly. I would be very surprised if the differences were more than a couple of points but as I can find nothing to back that up I will not suggest it is true.

I do know that some top names in all fields were academicaly very gifted as well so I am not sure what the relevance to this discussion is I'm afraid. But then again it is 0150 in the UK and I have still got to 0700 to go...

DeG