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The marshmallow and Asch experiments aren't testing anything like intellectual lability. They are testing if you can do the reasonable thing despite emotions and biases. That's a big part of rationality and that's what I'd like to test. Reasoning yourself out of religion is an advanced use of the same skill.
The marshmallow experiment tests several things, among them the time preference. Asch tests, also among other things, how much do you value fitting well into society. It's not all that simple.
May I then suggest calling this ability "vulcanness" and measure it in millispocks?
And how that "ability to do the reasonable thing" is going to be orthogonal to intelligence?