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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 581062" data-attributes="member: 1331">No. In the real world, it's practically impossible to say what "twice as intelligent" means. About all you can really quantify is the number of people in the population who match that level of intelligence.The exact meaning of a score depends on which test you took. But, IIRC from the scale I studied in college:IQ 84 is the low end of average. 85% of all people are this smart or better.IQ 116 is the high end of average. About 40% of the population are at least this smart.IQ 132 is the minimum score for getting into Mensa. About 2% of the population is this smart.IQ 148 is considered very high. Only 0.13% of the population is this smart. If you tested a thousand people at random, you'd expect to see only one score at this level.The progression continues on. By the time you get to IQ 180+, you're theoretically looking at one person in tens of thousands. (I say theoretically, because most tests don't try to measure this high.) It's not supernaturally high-- this is where I tend to score <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(:" title="Smile    (:"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname="(:" />:brag:<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-- it's just very uncommon.If you absolutely must have a correspondence between real-world IQ and a D&D Intelligence score, you need to know how many people in your campaign have a particular Intelligence. (This is doable if you know what dice method each NPC uses for his stats.) Then you work backward, fit the bell curve to that of an IQ test, and line up the numbers. Do all that, and you'll end up with something very much like Kraedin's list.Me, I'll probably use his list in the first place and save myself some work.</blockquote>

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