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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 4030234" data-attributes="member: 15538">Of all the stats, only two really equate to anything measurable IRL: Strength and Intelligence.Even then, they don't mean what people think they do. Pure physical power is one of the least important functions of Str. Most of it seems to be &quot;twitch muscle&quot; and physical learning, including a lot of what in other games is &quot;agility.&quot; As for Intelligence... it is not equivalent to IQ. Real IQ includes cognition, memory, and abstract reasoning (Int), perceputal organization and practical knowledge (Wis), and vocabulary, and knowledge of socially appropriate responses. I would say IQ most correlates to Int (because Int governs skill acquisition), but it also would affect Wis and Cha, in about that order. Int also governs &quot;cleverness&quot; (such as when it is a prereq for feats, when it allows you to overcome certain kinds of spells, when it involves problem solving) which in real life is measured more by things like a Global Assessment of Functioning. However, your GAF most correlates with probably Wisdom. And that's setting aside Garder's multiple intelligences, to say nothing of ethnocentrism. How well do you think a smart human would do on a dwarven IQ test?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 4030234, member: 15538"] [b]Of all the stats, only two really equate to anything measurable IRL: Strength and Intelligence.[/b] Even then, they don't mean what people think they do. Pure physical power is one of the [i]least[/i] important functions of Str. Most of it seems to be "twitch muscle" and physical learning, including a lot of what in other games is "agility." As for Intelligence... it is not equivalent to IQ. Real IQ includes cognition, memory, and abstract reasoning (Int), perceputal organization and practical knowledge (Wis), and vocabulary, and knowledge of socially appropriate responses. I would say IQ most correlates to Int (because Int governs skill acquisition), but it also would affect Wis and Cha, in about that order. Int also governs "cleverness" (such as when it is a prereq for feats, when it allows you to overcome certain kinds of spells, when it involves problem solving) which in real life is measured more by things like a Global Assessment of Functioning. However, your GAF most correlates with probably Wisdom. And that's setting aside Garder's multiple intelligences, to say nothing of ethnocentrism. How well do you think a smart human would do on a dwarven IQ test? [/QUOTE]

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