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Comment author: JonahSinick 27 May 2015 12:06:16AM *  4 points [-]

The distinction that I'm drawing is that intelligence is about the capacity to recognize patterns whereas aesthetic discernment is about selectively being drawn toward patterns that are important. I believe that intelligence explains a large fraction of the variance in mathematicians' productivity. See my post Innate Mathematical Ability. But I think that the percent of variance that intelligence explains is less than 50%.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 27 May 2015 12:24:28AM 0 points [-]

Ah, I see. I forgot about that, thanks!