| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Damion Milliken) |
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| Subject: | IQ vs SR Intelligence (was: Yourself as a contact) |
| Date: | Thu Mar 7 22:00:01 2002 |
> 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.
Rolling 4 dice as against rolling 3 is a 33% boost to your dice...
Dice TN % Chance of 1 Success
---- -- ---------------------
3 4 87.5
4 4 93.75
So at average tasks (TN 4), a SR character with Intelligence 3 or 4 would
perform about the same.
Dice TN % Chance of 1 Success
---- -- ---------------------
3 6 42.13
4 6 51.77
Whereas at difficult tasks (TN 6), a character with Intelligence 4 has a
decided edge.
I'm not sure if this would accurately represent the difference between
someone with IQ 100 and IQ 120, of course. <has a quick surf> As a side
note, a web page I just surfed to reckoned that an IQ of 120 or greater
represented about the top 10% of the population.
--
Damion Milliken University of Wollongong
Unofficial Shadowrun Guru E-mail: dam01@***.edu.au
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