Topic on Talk:Are there any advantages to having a slow personal tempo?

I deleted the 'relevant question'--I really liked how you reframed it to "comparative advantage of same IQ but different speed". I'll take a look at relevant literature and see what can be surmised.

I'm trying to map out a bit the dark area around PS and IQ--there doesn't seem to be a consensus and there are many theories regarding what means to be intelligent in the first place. I don't want to spend too much time there, but at the same time it appears that the deeper we go, the easier it is to find correlations!

So I summarized a stackexchange discussion you had pointed out regarding processing speed and IQ and deleted that sentence (kept the link). After reading all that papers on processing speed (and kind of losing perspective), I started thinking that perhaps apart from people having a general speed and some being slow etc, perhaps being slow has to do with the specific way people do things eg. maybe some people have frequent lapses in attention that makes them slow compared to others. Found a paper that correlates walking speed and processing speed (and dementia... unfortunately most research will have to do with extreme cases!). Tomorrow I think it's worth looking into autism and adhd to see if slow processing speed has anything to do with slow movement etc But tell me if you think I'm spending too much time with this intelligence thing. It's just that while it might not be relevant per se, by reading about all these things i get ideas about other ways to explore the subject.

Ya it's hard to tell if the iq vs processing speed thing is relevant.

I do feel like I saw something about ADD and autistic people having less of a correlation between processing speed and IQ (is that why you put this part in the wiki page "Possible area of study: ADHD and people on the autistic spectrum."?). If that's right (gotta find the source for that) That may be a productive hint for answering this question.

If anything the iq/ps stuff looks like it's to the fast people's advantage, so it would be much more relevant to the question "what advantages do fast people have?". As the question is phrased currently, fast people's advantages might not be so relevant. But at the same time, probably the best way to actually answer this question is to just answer the more general question "what are the differences between fast and slow people." With that approach IQ may be relevant.