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Abnormal behavior - patterns of emotion, thought, and action considered pathological (diseased or disordered) for one or more of the reasons: 1. Statistical infrequency. ON way to judge whether a person’s behavior is abnormal is to compare the frequency of his or her behavior to that of others. Believing that others are plotting against you is statistically abnormal and is usually diagnosed as a delusion of persecution. However, intelligence is believed to be distributed along a normal, bell-shaped curve, and people with IQ above 132 are statistically i