The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth seems to uncover exactly this relationship. www.vanderbilt.edu/Peabody/SMPY/DoingPsychScience2006.pdf In the bott

The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth seems to uncover exactly this relationship. www.vanderbilt.edu/Peabody/SMPY/DoingPsychScience2006.pdf In the bottom quartile of the SMPY cohort (99 percentile) less than 0.5% received tenure at a top 50 school. Of the top quartile, it was a bit over 3%. --- A throughout read of the SMPY literature should be required reading for discussions of this nature online. Also a good read: "Cross-Cultural Analysis of Students with Exceptional Talent in Mathematical Problem Solving." www.ams.org/notices/200810/fea-gallian.pdf