Message no. 1

From:	Luke Kendall <luke@********.CANON.OZ.AU>
Subject:	Intelligence is not intelligence (Was: Re: Star scientist)
Date:	Wed, 1 Feb 1995 13:37:39 +1100

J.W.Thomas writes:

> > > As for goblinisation, fine, my star scientist just turned into a Troll.
Oh,
> > > shucks, lose 2 Intelligence points. While still bright, he's no longer my
> > > star scientist, is he?
> > Older researchers tend to be productive not for their
> > intelligence, but for their experience and the way they can collate their
> > life work together. Read the study about aging in _Scientific American_.
> <CHOPPER>
> and how does Int-2 effect Quantum Physics 12?
> the stat alterations can't alter what he alredys knows

In SR, you use the appropriate skill when rolling for anything that
in Real Life requires knowledge or intelligence. Which also means
that Increase Intelligence +4 doesn't raise IQ.

So researchers can't become geniuses (by today's standards) cheaply,
so the rate of scientific progress won't have accelerated to such
a degree that the society would be evolving faster than would be
comfortable to write source material for!

luke