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Well, high IQ, slow thinking… isn't that really incompatible?
Let's take for example intelligent answers to questions: they cost more words, more difficult concepts, and more concentration for being written or understood. Therefore the “quick thinkers” won't take the long road to understanding, and simply won't get it.
Often in life when someone looks like a quick thinker in a situation, it either means that he already thought about that particular topic or a related topic, therefore he can relate to some kind of knowledge and he will need to build few on top of it, or either it means that he really don't get it and he is faking understanding.
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IQ tries to measure intelligence, but it fails in doing so because general intelligence can't be defined, hence in philosophy it is still an open topic. Therefore IQ tests are just for measuring IQ and are very efficient on doing so, but they tell little about someone's intelligence. Intelligence is a very complex topic because of the incredible complexity of the brain on one hand, and the multiplicity of its capacities on the other hand.
Usually someone with more tools often won't be able to craft as fast as someone with just one tool, but the person with one tool will be limited by it at some point and from that point forward, won't be able to follow the pace. So as with intelligence: if you're careful and say less mistakes, you're slower.
In a forest, all the trees grow as fast. Because if they don't, the fastest take all the light and end up replacing the slow ones. So then in that forest, all the trees end up growing as fast. The same is true for intelligence. Everybody thinks at the same speed, because if they don't, evolution will replace the slow ones. So that in the end, only one speed of thinking and one technology will be used by everyone.
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So everybody thinks at the same speed. What differs from one person to the next, is the path the thinking takes.
More intelligence = more depth = longer paths.
So intelligence is like sex: if you're fast, you're probably doing it wrong. ;-)
