[gdubs]

Intellectual horsepower is just one element. If you're trying to build the world's fastest car, you can't just grab the world's most powerful engine and call it a day. If you can harness it, sure – it could provide an edge. But there are a lot of other elements that come into play.

I often think about exposure to music, and the fact that Einstein liked to play around on his violin. My suspicion is that this was more than just a hobby – and that these context switches, and exposure to different types of creative thought, all played into his discoveries.

[MichaelZuo]

It’s probably even simpler… they simply don’t have that much “intellectual horsepower” in the first place.

It just’s an artifact of testing methodologies that can’t resolve very lumpy or spiky intelligence.

And therefore ends up being confused with genuine supergenius which is more correlated to the total area under the curve, so to speak.