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This is almost a tautological result. Your IQ score is a single number. You can meaningfully reduce IQ to a single number because cognitive skills tend to be correlated within an individual meaning that people who tend to be "intelligent" at some academic tasks tend to be "intelligent" at all tasks. A high functioning autistic, however, must necessarily be much worse at some cognitive tasks than others and so necessarily has a high variance in cognitive abilities.
Okay that's true. But the cognitive tasks Aspies do worse on are usually social tasks, which IQ tests usually don't capture. So that's why I still think of this result as interesting/novel.