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Originally Posted by johndallman
No, none of this makes any sense. People with IQ 13 don't learn four times faster. People with IQ 13 who go to college don't do so at age 9. Child prodigies have something more like an highly specific and narrow Talent, and are very rare.
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Always according to the game system, every skill point has its equivalent in hours of formal learning (about 200 hours). How many points does a student with IQ 10 need to become a Biologist, and how many does another student with IQ 13 need?
The first one needs 16 points. The second needs 4 points. So 16/4 = 4, or four times faster.
What would be the equivalence of those points to hours according to the system? The first one needs 3.200 hours, the second one needs 800 hours. At 6 hours per credit and about 120 credits for a bachelor's degree, at 3 hours/week and 15 weeks/semester per credit, that is about 5.400 hours on a 4-year Bachelor's degree. In the GURPS system that would hand out about 27 skill points, enough to spend 16-20 on Biology (up to level 12-13), and a few more elsewhere (for an IQ 10 character). What would happen if we give the same number of points to a character with IQ 13? That character would have a Biology score of up to 15-16. The logical thought is to assume that the knowledge is acquired faster, not that receiving the same lessons you can end up having the level of a PhD.
I thought this was axiomatic, but maybe it's just my opinion.