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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6845283" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think that what [MENTION=23751]Maxperson[/MENTION] means is this:IQ score is taken to be a marker of some property of a person - let's call that property intelligence. Having IQ 180, among real-life human beings on earth, means you're in the top X% (where X is less than 0.00000029). That X % of people have a certain degree of intelligence - let's call that amount of intelligence I. Now, in the world of D&D, there are also people who have I amount of intelligence. But the number of such people is far greater than in the real world. Rather than being X%, it is nearly 0.5% (1 in 216).In other words, the conjecture is that humans of high intelligence tend to be more common in the world of D&D than they are in the real world.Personally I think this conjecture is positing that the stat generation system has a degree of world-building robustness that I don't think was ever intended. In the case of AD&D, there is the additional complexity that for many NPCs stats are meant to be rolled using averaging dice (1 = 3, 6 = 4) which means that the max INT is 15, and that scores above 12 are less common than they would be on a 3d6 roll. (25 in 216 will be 13, 14 or 15 - that's a little more than 1 in 9, which actually isn't too out of whack with <a href="http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/iqtable.aspx" target="_blank">these figures</a>, if we allow 121 to map to 13 rather than 12.)</blockquote>

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