| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Sebastian Wiers) |
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| Subject: | Yourself as a contact |
| Date: | Thu Mar 7 20:50:01 2002 |
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>Int: IQ is at least:
>1 70
>2 85
>3 100
>4 120
>5 140
>6 160
>7 180
And you gave yourself a 6? Yowza!
I always figured IQ's for even very smart people were lower than that, like
around 140-150, with 160+ being really rare. I dunno, I'm sure somebody can
describe the bell curve deviations in a second. But I'd expect the scale
there to run up to a "10" representing people who are 1-in-a-million
briliant. 10 is actually possible for unmodified humans in SR, its just
gonna be damn rare. I think the whole scale is also maybe 10 points high-
many people with a 90 IQ are what would pass for "average" on the street,
and an attributte score of 4 doesn't really indacate ability that is much
above average.
>I know IQ is not necessarily the best measure of intelligence out there,
>but this is at least a decent scale.
I think IQ is actually a pretty close to what Shadowrun calls Intellegence,
because Willpower and Charisma cover other areas of ability that require
smarts but not raw IQ. I think "oblivious" would be a pretty common flaw,
however.
-Sebastian
