Typically,people think ofgenius,whether it manifests in Mozart’s composition of symphonies at age five or Einstein’s discovery of relativity, as having a quality not just of the supernatural,but also of the eccentric.People see genius as a good abnormality;moreover,they think of genius as a completely unpredictable abnormality. Until recently, psychologists regarded the quirks of genius as too erratic to describe intelligibly;however, Anna Findley’s ground-breaking study uncovers predictable patterns in the biographies ofgeniuses.These patterns do not dispel the common belief that there is a kind of supernatural intervention in the lives of unusually talented men and women, however, even though they occur with regularity.__________,Findley shows that all geniuses experience three intensely productive periods in their lives,one ofwhich always occurs shortly before their deaths; this is true whether the genius lives to 19 or 90. According to the information presented in the passage,what is the general populace’s opinion of genius?