>being intelligent in one thing does correlate with being intelligent at other things vs >The consistent finding of universally positive correlation matrices

>being intelligent in one thing does correlate with being intelligent at other things vs >The consistent finding of universally positive correlation matrices of mental test results (or the "positive manifold"), despite large differences in tests' contents, has been described as "arguably the most replicated result in all psychology".[9] How are they contradictory? Did the first part of my comment make you think there was a negation?