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Yeah speed is a key factor in intelligence. And actually one of the biggest differentiators in human iq measurements



Humans are a bit annoying that way, because it's all correlated.

So a human with a better response time, also tends to give you more intelligent answers, even when time is not a factor.

For a computer, you can arbitrarily slow them down (or speed them up), and still get the same answer.




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