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Old 01-18-2021, 10:24 AM   #41
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I don't think it could be really. A default is passing knowledge and experience. I don't think a few books or TV programs about a subject could result in a professional plus degree of competency regardless of intelligence.
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Old 01-18-2021, 11:35 AM   #42
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I don't think it could be really. A default is passing knowledge and experience. I don't think a few books or TV programs about a subject could result in a professional plus degree of competency regardless of intelligence.
On the other hand, IQ is not just "intelligence," not even if you buy down Per and Will. IQ also has to represent various sorts of general knowledge, things where you roll against IQ to know something that's not specialized enough to fall under a skill. A person with a really high IQ might have fairly impressive general knowledge.

Though there is also Delusion (I have an incredibly high IQ and am a polymath). Or perhaps Delusion (I am Clark Savage, Jr.).
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Old 01-18-2021, 09:04 PM   #43
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She's going to end up on a level with Newton or Einstein, or close to it, anyway.
In case it was not clear, I don't think Einstein or Hawking or Wegener or other famous natural scientists are great examples of high GURPS IQ. Mostly they would have a modest IQ, say 12 or 13, several levels of a Talent, and lots of skills, advantages, and perks. That is a really important thing to understand about GURPS: Intelligence is not how 'brainy' or intellectual a character is, but about their skill at too many 'thinky skills' to bother enumerating. So a few scientists might qualify for IQ 14+ (Aristotle, Newton, or Feynmann maybe) but so would a few politicians like Julius Caesar or Arnold Schwartzenegger and multitalented designers and makers. I think that the name "Intelligence" and abbreviation IQ confuse people, because even if you believe IQ tests measure something real and important, its not what the game attribute represents.

Kromm's take here is a bit different from mine, because he is an extrovert and not neurodivergent in the same way I am, but its worth reading.

Edit: Hergé's Professor Calculus might not have a remarkable IQ in GURPS (just Science! skill and a talent), but other cinematic inventors would. The aspect of a person which says "give this character a very high IQ in GURPS" (versus a talent or a bang skill) is "high level of skill and quick learning in many unrelated areas represented by IQ-based skills in GURPS" not "really intellectual"
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Old 01-20-2021, 06:31 AM   #44
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I have removed a tangent about real world education. This has very little to do with GURPS, please do not return to that tangent.

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