>>11941758The confounding factor is creativity. Some people may be able to do high level computation and problem solving, but the creativity required for major contributions to math and the sciences is insane. It's a very high level creativity too, somewhat, but not exactly, comparable to artistic/linguistic ability. Creativity itself is slightly (.2-3) correlated with intelligence, so they're not mutually exclusive, but there definitely is a difference between the intellect of someone like Peter Scholze and Matt Damon.
