title: Idiot savants: rate of incidence.
abstract: Based on the replies to a survey of 300 public residential facilities for the mentally retarded, an incidence rate for idiot savants was established. This rate of .06% is based on the reporting of 54 idiot savants within a population of 90,000 residents. Several reasons for caution in the acceptance of this incidence rate are discussed.
mesh_terms: D001076:Aptitude; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012112:Residential Facilities; D014481:United States