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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al" data-source="post: 614517" data-attributes="member: 2486">IQ, Int and StupidityThe stupidity, to put it bluntly, is to those people making the connection.Int is not equal to IQ/10 This cannot be emphasised enough.  The simple fact is that even using the 'average' method (3d6), the chances of getting an 18 are 1 in 216.  On the standard Mensa IQ scale, the chance of having an IQ of 180 is roughly 1 in 1,000,000.  Conversely, the chances of getting a 3 Int are 1 in 216.  Yet an IQ 30 is so severely retarded that you cannot even talk, let alone read or write.  It is clearly wrong that say that 0.5% of the population cannot even talk a single language (discuss...)Furthermore, the average Int is 10.5 (as discussed before), whereas the average IQ is usually taken to be 100.The fact is that the bell curve of Int does not and cannot map onto the bell curve of IQ.  Int 7 is probably far better equated to around an IQ in the low 80s or perhaps high 70s.  But Int is emphatically not simply IQ/10.</blockquote>