Blind people tend to have less spatial intelligence though, like significantly more. Not very nice to say like that, and of course they often develop heightened intelligence in other areas, but we do consider human-level spatial reasoning a very important goal in AI.
People with sensory impairments from birth may be restricted in certain areas, on account of the sensory impairment, but are no less generally cognitively capable than the average person.
> but are no less generally cognitively capable than the average person
I think this would depend entirely on how the sensory impairment came about, since most genetic problems are not isolated, but carry a bunch of other related problems (all of which can impact intelligence).
Lose your eye sight in an accident? I would grant there is likely no difference on average.
Otherwise, the null hypothesis is that intelligence (and a whole host of other problems) are likely worse, on average.
