What skills would a NAI-4 have in 2011?

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Langy

I really doubt skills much higher than IQ would be available. Maybe up to IQ+2.

In any case, most of those things have nothing to do with what a general consumer would want - it's mostly highly specific stuff. Research is something everyone can use - it's why search engines are so popular. A low level of Mathematics just because it's easy to put on there, and Computer Operation so that the program can debug your system if you break it. Can you think of anything else that should go on a general system that every consumer would want, as opposed to things that specialists might desire?

Computer Operation, yes. Math not so much because it is easy to put there (it's a Hard skill), but more because math is the basis of everything.

While Accounting, Finance, Market Analysis and Merchant might seem a small niche, they aren't: Accountants are a very large portion of computer users, which is why tech support typically sees them as the primary clientelle. The latter three skills will be popular not because they have everyday applications, but because their applications influence every day of their lives. For instance, getting cheaper items of the same quality is always good, even if you only actually buy them once a month or year.

As for limiting skills to IQ+2, that seems a bit low. IQ+C perhaps?