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<blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 8468388" data-attributes="member: 58416">Too often, intelligence is synonymous with education.I do not believe the two things to be equivalent.In terms of whatever &quot;IQ&quot; is said to be from tests, I would agree that it's a too-vague concept to be useful in any context which asks for nuance.That's probably why newer tests measure different types of &quot;IQ&quot; and break it down into subcategories.There are still flaws with it, but what the US military calls the ASVAB is likely a better-designed test to measure ability (in a multitude of areas) than a lot of old IQ tests.How any of that relates to what D&amp;D calls intelligence is probably roughly as accurate as the D&amp;D weapon categories are when compared to real life. Even so, I don't think it's an absurd notion to suggest that D&amp;D ability scores have some amount of meaning. There is a functional difference when contrasting different strength scores. Is the same not true of other ability scores? Why or why not?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Argyle King, post: 8468388, member: 58416"] Too often, intelligence is synonymous with education. I do not believe the two things to be equivalent. In terms of whatever "IQ" is said to be from tests, I would agree that it's a too-vague concept to be useful in any context which asks for nuance. That's probably why newer tests measure different types of "IQ" and break it down into subcategories. There are still flaws with it, but what the US military calls the ASVAB is likely a better-designed test to measure ability (in a multitude of areas) than a lot of old IQ tests. How any of that relates to what D&D calls intelligence is probably roughly as accurate as the D&D weapon categories are when compared to real life. Even so, I don't think it's an absurd notion to suggest that D&D ability scores have some amount of meaning. There is a functional difference when contrasting different strength scores. Is the same not true of other ability scores? Why or why not? [/QUOTE]

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