Re-intelligence?
How do you define intelligence, as applied to e.g. Mercury=Intelligence?
Mercury, has nothing to do with intelligence.
I have seen all the statistics for great scientists, Mercury, is nowhere to be seen, how do you account for this default of Mercury?
Re-Orbs, only represents the frame work that astrologers are using, is self-defaulted.
Datransformer
I agree that there many different kinds of intelligence, but I think objectively most people think it to be the psychological definition represented by "g" for "general intelligence". You can take a trial Mensa test to see what it is they are testing for.
I have spent a lot of time going over the charts of accomplished scientists (mostly physicists and mathematicians) and it is staggering to see with their (western tropical, geocentric) charts how common Mercury is in a multiple-planet configuration with some combination of Uranus, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter. Einstein is a classic example with a Mercury/Saturn eclipse (conjunction + parallel) in the 10th house which also inconjuncts Uranus in the 3rd. In my opinion, it doesn't get any clearer than that.
Some more examples (I use the standard Magi Society geocentric orbs of 3' longitudinal and 1'12" declinational; there are many aspects and planets I left out that a lot of people would consider contributing to their inquisitive and sometimes rebellious natures and also for simplicity):
Niels Bohr - wide Mercury/Uranus conjunction square Saturn, Mercury also parallels Uranus
Paul Dirac - wide Sun/Mercury conjunction trine Uranus and opposes Jupiter
Isaac Newton - Mercury/Saturn square, Jupiter/Uranus trine sextiled by the Sun
Gottfried Leibniz - Mercury/Uranus/Neptune all contraparallel each other
Benoit Mandelbrot - Mercury/Mars square, both aspecting Pluto
J. Craig Venter - wide Mercury/Mars conjunction with Mercury/Saturn
Michel Gauquelin - Mercury/Uranus inconjunct, Mercury/Jupiter opposition
Hans Eysenck - Mercury/Uranus eclipse in wide opposition to Mars
Wilhelm Roentgen - Mercury/Jupiter eclipse sextile Saturn (Sun/Uranus conjunction also)
Stanislaw Ulam - Mercury/Saturn eclipse square Neptune
Robert W. Bussard - Mercury/Saturn trine, wide Mercury/Mars parallel
Grigory Perelman - Mercury/Jupiter conjunction
Carl Gauss - Sun/Mercury conjunction t-square Saturn and Uranus
Bernhard Riemann - Mercury/Saturn sextile, Mercury/Venus sextile
Kurt Godel - Mercury/Uranus square, Mercury/Jupiter sextile
Michio Kaku - Sun/Mercury conjunction oppose Saturn, Mercury/Mars parallel
Edward Lorenz - Mercury/Jupiter conjunction square Uranus, Mercury/Mars parallel, Mercury/Uranus contraparallel
Omar Khayyam - Sun/Mercury/Venus eclipse in a grand trine with Jupiter and Uranus
Percival Lowell - Mercury/Saturn square
Andrei Markov - Mercury/Saturn conjunction
Marvin Minsky - Mercury/Saturn contraparallel
Steven Hawking - Mercury/Uranus/Neptune grand trine, Mercury/Mars square, Sun/Mercury/Jupiter all contact each other in declinations
John von Neumann - Sun/Mercury/Uranus parallel, Mercury/Venus/Pluto yod
Bill Joy - Mercury/Neptune eclipse square Jupiter/Uranus eclipse
Edward Teller - Sun/Mercury conjunction sextile Saturn and inconjunct Pluto, exact Mercury/Uranus parallel
J. Robert Oppenheimer - Mercury/Saturn square
Wolfgang Pauli - Mercury trines a Jupiter/Uranus eclipse
Bui Tuong Phong - Mercury/Venus eclipse inconjunct Uranus
Max Planck - Mercury/Jupiter conjunction sextiling (bisecting, at the midpoint of, whatever) a Saturn/Neptune trine, Mercury parallel Saturn
Richard Feynman - Mercury/Uranus sextile
Karl Popper - Mercury/Uranus inconjunct, Mercury contraparallel Saturn/Uranus
Srinivasa Ramanujan - Mercury/Uranus sextile
Alois Treindl - Mercury/Uranus trine, Mercury/Venus/Jupiter parallel
What statistics are you looking at?
I think sign position is more "qualitative" for lack of a better word and is less appropriate for quantitative analysis - something that angularity and aspects are better suited for. I haven't tested that out in any serious way, though.
Gilgamesh