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I agree, but, ceteris paribus, I expect you'd see higher returns to these abilities. That is, if you had to choose between being better at math and being better at getting grants, you'd want to pick the grants, particularly over a certain threshold of math skills. This, however, assumes a lot about how you define "success" as a scientist. I may be overly cynical; I am not in the sciences.
This sounds correct at the margin of an average scientist or average LW reader, but your original post could've been read as implying an average human baseline, where math probably is more important.