(TFT) Raw Text, IQ

["Jay Carlisle" <selfinflicted_wounds@boardermail.com>]

INTELLIGENCE


Intelligence — yes, but of what kind and aim? There is the intelligence of Socrates, and the intelligence of a thief or a forger. 
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, journal, 1868, undated 

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble. 
JAMES BALDWIN, Julius Lester interview, April 1984, Conversations with James Baldwin, ed. Fred L. Standley and Louis H. Pratt, 1989 

The smarter the guy, the bigger the rascal. 
WILL ROGERS, weekly column, 6 January 1929, The Will Rogers Book, 6.11, comp. Paula McSpadden Love, 1961 

The folly of intelligent people, clear-headed and narrow-visioned, has precipitated many catastrophes. 
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD, Adventures of Ideas, 4.2, 1933 

Intelligence alone, without wisdom and empathy for suffering, is hollow. 
JOHN G. STOESSINGER, Why Nations Go to War, 3rd ed., 4, 1982 (1974) 

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. 
LEWIS MUMFORD, The Transformations of Man, 7.1, 1956 

The test of intelligence [is] not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do. Similarly, any situation, any activity, that puts before us real problems, that we have to solve for ourselves, problems for which there are no answers in any book, sharpens our intelligence. 
JOHN HOLT, "Art, Math, and Other Things," How Children Learn, 1967 

Intelligence is not something possessed once for all. It is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn and courage in re-adjustment. 
JOHN DEWEY, Reconstruction in Philosophy, 4, 1920 

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. 
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, "The Crack-Up," Esquire, February 1936, The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson, 1945 

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. 
GEORGE SANTAYANA, "Against Prying Philosophers," Little Essays, 62, ed. Logan Pearsall Smith, 1920 

Intelligent people are allus on th’ unpop’lar side of anything. 
KIN HUBBARD, Abe Martin: Hoss Sense and Nonsense, p. 100, 1926 

The smarter you are, the smaller your strike zone. 
ANONYMOUS 

You can't beat brains. 
JOHN F. KENNEDY (1917-1963), a repeated remark, in Richard Reeves, President Kennedy: Profile of Power, 28, 1993 

If you're so smart, how come you ain't rich? 
SAYING (AMERICAN) 

in.tel'li.gence, n. [OFr. intelligence; L. intelligentia, perception, discernment, from intelligens (-entis), ppr. of intelligere, to perceive, understand.]
1. (a) the ability to learn or understand from experience; ability to acquire and retain knowledge; mental ability; (b) the abitily to respond quickly and successfully to a new situation; use of the faculty of reason in solving problems, directing conduct, etc. effectively; (c) in psychology, measured success in useing these abilities to perform certain tasks.
2. news; tidings; information.
3. the gathering of secret information, as for military or police purposes.
4. the persons or agency employed at this; secret service.
5. intelligence personified; an intelligent spirit or being.
6. familiar terms of acquaintance; intercourse. [Obs.]
   He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites. -Clarendon
 intelligence department (or burreau); a division of a government gathering information for the use of the country's navy and army in military operations, or for the guidance of a state department or foreign office in it's formation of foreign policy.
 intelligence office; (a) an intelligence department; (b) [Obs.] an employment office or agency for domestic help.
 intelligence quotient; a number indicating level of intelligence, obtained by multiplying the mental age by 100 and dividing by the chronological age: abbreviated IQ, I. Q.
 intelligence test; a standardized series of problems progressively graded in difficulty, intended to test an individual's intelligence.

Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary Unabridged (second edition-delux color) Copyright 1983





Long setup.
I find it intresting that the Websters's deffinitions of Strength and Dexterity both contain referents to "mental adroitness", or "intellectual force", as well as little corralaries like Strength mentioning the stock exchange and Dexterity quoting Adam Smith.
The references from these three terms alone sound like one hell of a game.



IQ
0 = inantimate objects.
(Plant life at very slow move?)

1 = Animals w/o backbones

2 = Fish

3 = Amphibians & Reptiles

4 = Birds

5 = Rodents

6 = Hoofed Animals

7 = Flesh-eating Mammals

8 = Ocean Mammals

9 = Apes & Monkeys

10 = Humans



The earliest intelligence test was designed to place children in appropriate school classes.
Problem-solving ability grows rapidly during childhood. Because of this, Binet decided to make an age scale of intelligence. He chose tasks for each age level that could be performed by most youngsters of that age but that could not be done by the majority of children a year younger.
In 1905 Binet and Theodore Simon published a scale of intelligence for children from 3 to 13.

Mental Age
 The scores made on Binet scales and most similar tests are stated in terms of mental age (MA). When a child is described as having a mental age of 9, he is able to solve the same test problems as average 9-year-old children.
This would suggest to the teacher or the parent that the child is able to keep pace in learning with average 9-year-olds, even though he might actually be younger or older than 9. The intelligence test score also gives a clue to the child's readiness to assume social responsibility by getting along with others, to his ability to care for himself, and to the level of play behavior he might be expected to show.

To measure the IQ of a 7-year-old who has a mental age of 9, this formula would be used:
9yrs 0 months / 7yrs 0 months * 100 = 108 months / 84 months * 100 = 128.57, 0r 129 
If the 7-year-old child had a mental age of 9 years, his IQ would be 129. If the youngster tested were 12 years old, however, his IQ would be 75. A child whose intelligence quotient is more than 100 is maturing mentally faster than the average. One with an IQ of 75 is regarded as maturing at about three fourths the average rate.

Predicting the Rate of Mental Development
 Not only does an IQ score indicate the rate at which a child has learned in the past, but it also can be used to predict the rate at which he will learn in the future. If a 4-year-old has a Binet MA of 5 years, his Binet IQ is 125. It can be predicted then that his mental age will continue to be about one fourth more than his chronological age. When he is 6, therefore, his MA will be about 7 years, 6 months. When he is 12, his mental level will be about that of an average 15-year-old.
On the other hand, an 8-year-old child with a Binet IQ of 50 is expected to develop mentally only to a level of about 8 years by the time he is 15 or 16 years old.
Dividing an older person's mental by his chronological age to find his IQ gives a meaningless figure. For example, a brilliant man of 60 might get top score on a mental age scale. If his score were divided by 60, however, he would be rated as mentally defective.
Terman corrected this by arbitrarily assigning the chronological age of 15 to everyone 16 years old or older. 
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Excerpted from Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia
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Animals such as Birds, Apes, Dogs, and Monkeys seem to be compaired to a Mental Age of 5 by current research, and these animals are exceeding human performance in many tasks, i.e. a higher Mental Age than 5 years 0 months.
See Alex, recent Nova on Primate Inteligence, Nat Geos Inside the Mind of Dogs, Animal Planets Orangatang Island, etc.

It seems to me that we can call an Animals IQ it's Mental Age, and let "sentient" types get the full IQ.
TFT ITL
"Intelligence means different things when applied to humantypes and animals. A very smart dog and a hobgoblin may both have IQ 7, but that doesn't mean they have the same KIND of intelligence."
The idea here being that, with some beter information on the Binet tasks, Mental Age provides a good idea of the tasks that a "smart" animal can preform.
Intelligent Dogs, Horses, Wizard Familars, Swords, etc.

What does this say for a 100 year old Wizard?
>From Comptons above,
"If a 4-year-old has a Binet MA of 5 years, his Binet IQ is 125. It can be predicted then that his mental age will continue to be about one fourth more than his chronological age."
Intelligence Quotient 125 = IQ 12.5 @ 4 year old with 5 year old Mental Age, where 5 year old is Joe Average IQ @ 10.
At 100 years old that's 25 IQ points more than Joe Average.
A 3 year old with a Mental Age of 5 = IQ 13.
A 2 year old @ ma 5 = IQ 15.
A 1 year old @ ma 5 = IQ 20.
What would this be, a sliding maximum IQ scale?
Set Point IQ?
Max IQ = (Original IQ (Mental Age) * Age) / 10
This sets Humanoid starting IQ at a range of 6 to 18.
A Figure can't manage any IQ above its max IQ, no matter the source (insanity).
Managing IQ is not just big Spells.
More on this in Politics.

@ 20 years old
Joe Average, IQ 10 = max IQ 20
Max Goblin (maximum statistic, like Joe Average), IQ 18 = max IQ 36
IQ 8 = max IQ 16
min IQ 6 = max IQ 12

@ 100 years old a Goblin max of 180 IQ is the top. (humanoid at least)
Because of this we can round off IQ to at least 20, if not 30, for humanoids.

No WONDER Wizards always got long white hair and beards.
That Lich thing too...
TFT ITL
"You may assume that a character is 20 years old when he
enters play. He is not affected by age until he reaches 50."

IQ as a function of Time/Age? (Timeline?)
The way I'm reading it, yes.
ST is force over or at (die roll) Time.
DX is speed over or at Time.
IQ is pretidictive of success for meta-turn (mturn) Actions, i.e. long durations of Time (Timeline).

It makes sense to me.
ST & DX are both concerned, mainly, with 5 second turns. (or less)
Melee, and Wizard for Arena Combat (Magic)
IQ is the determining factor in just about everything that takes longer than a turn, as in mturns.
ITL for Campagins.

McWhirter tells me that the highest IQ recorded was 210 (21).
This appears to be a way of saying "off the scale" as many indices top at 200 (20).
Only 100 persons per million have an IQ over 160 (16).
The highest mean IQ published for a national population is 106.6 for Japan.

It seems that it's hard to train a large group to average over Joe.




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