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Alternative hypothesis 2
(At this point I should point out that I like your hypothesis, I just think it is not necessarily single-cause)
Satoshi Kanazawa's charmingly simple theory that general intelligence tends to suppress and displace most of your instincts. This means being smart pretty much automatically means being bad at a lot of things. The way I interpret it is that attention is a finite resource and you either pay attention to your analytical engine or your instincts or share it, but you cannot give full 100% attention to both. So if the analytical engine demands your attention the insticts shut up/down.
I have observed intelligent people being bad at the following instinctive things (not all of them, not in all of these):
I've observed lots of people being bad at those things, intelligent or not. I'm at least average at all of them. Granted, I have face blindness, but that has, thus far, been entirely insignificant, and I didn't even notice until I encountered the term researching something else - and that is likely to be related to the fact that I didn't start wearing glasses until -far- too late in my childhood, and so have insufficiently trained my brain to recognize faces in the first place. I've gotten gradually better at recognizing faces as I've expanded my social circle.
This kind of theory is appealing because it seems "fair". I'm attractive, intelligent, tall, charismatic, good at everything (except welding) I have ever tried. My observation is this: There is no fairness, at all.