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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7132468" data-attributes="member: 6787650"><p>I didn't have a precise mapping strategy in mind, but the 3d6 bell curve works as well as anything. On 3d6, 26% of rolls will be 8 or less. (I'm borrowing from <a href="http://www.thedarkfortress.co.uk/tech_reports/3_dice_rolls.htm#.WTXXn2jyuCo" target="_blank">here</a> instead of recomputing from scratch. I assume that guy has his math right but I didn't check it since it's in the right ballpark.) Being in the bottom 26% seems roughly compatible with your guess of IQ 90.</p><p></p><p>How well did you communicate with your IQ 90 students? (Or was IQ 95 your absolute lower limit, and you didn't have any 90s at all?) My experience is that there is a lot of friction (you're either saying things that they can't understand, or you're simplifying so much that it chafes). IMO, it is not easy at all to roleplaying being in their heads unless you roleplay them as reclusive types who rarely speak.</p><p></p><p>Have you ever seen the Big Bang Theory? Do you remember when Penny brought by a date who was worried that they might actually blow up the moon by measuring the distance to it with lasers? That guy was about Int 8. He was dumb even in Penny's eyes, and Penny is dim in the eyes of everyone else on show, by virtue of being average. (She's had some community college, like 64% of Americans, but hasn't actually gotten a degree yet, unlike 44% of Americans, so call her somewhere around the 45th-55th percentile.) Actually TALKING to that guy at length would be extremely stressful for me.</p><p></p><p>That's roughly how I guesstimate Int 8: you're dim in the eyes of people that other people consider dim.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7132468, member: 6787650"] I didn't have a precise mapping strategy in mind, but the 3d6 bell curve works as well as anything. On 3d6, 26% of rolls will be 8 or less. (I'm borrowing from [URL="http://www.thedarkfortress.co.uk/tech_reports/3_dice_rolls.htm#.WTXXn2jyuCo"]here[/URL] instead of recomputing from scratch. I assume that guy has his math right but I didn't check it since it's in the right ballpark.) Being in the bottom 26% seems roughly compatible with your guess of IQ 90. How well did you communicate with your IQ 90 students? (Or was IQ 95 your absolute lower limit, and you didn't have any 90s at all?) My experience is that there is a lot of friction (you're either saying things that they can't understand, or you're simplifying so much that it chafes). IMO, it is not easy at all to roleplaying being in their heads unless you roleplay them as reclusive types who rarely speak. Have you ever seen the Big Bang Theory? Do you remember when Penny brought by a date who was worried that they might actually blow up the moon by measuring the distance to it with lasers? That guy was about Int 8. He was dumb even in Penny's eyes, and Penny is dim in the eyes of everyone else on show, by virtue of being average. (She's had some community college, like 64% of Americans, but hasn't actually gotten a degree yet, unlike 44% of Americans, so call her somewhere around the 45th-55th percentile.) Actually TALKING to that guy at length would be extremely stressful for me. That's roughly how I guesstimate Int 8: you're dim in the eyes of people that other people consider dim. [/QUOTE]
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