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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 2608784" data-attributes="member: 9249">There are 32 000 members of this website.That means, straight odds-- the rules we use for NPC cannon fodder, not heroes-- that 148 of us should have an Intelligence score of 18. Some 889 of us, on average, will have some score of 18.That's not adjusting for the fact that we're not actually a straight demographic sample. For instance, to post here, a person generally has to understand the concept of roleplaying games, and they have to be capable of reading and writing the English language at around the sixth-grade level. (Rough guess.) That's going to rule out those of us with Intelligence scores between 3 and 5 at least, and possibly between 3 and 7.Now, you might point out that, as a forum dedicated to a geek hobby, we're probably going to have smaller physical ability scores than the general population. On the other hand, martial arts is also a geek hobby-- and a disportionate number of roleplayers are members of the armed forces, meaning that they're required to uphold a rather more strict physical standard.Of course, I have no way of measuring or modeling what effect that will have on our demographics-- but considering there's far fewer than 889 posts on this thread, and only a couple of people have seriously claimed to have an 18 in anything, we're far short of our quota.</blockquote>