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[qwertyuiopas]

The only things I can think of that they improved on in making oblivion were script spell effects and alternate world spaces. And they failed to use either to their true extent of possibility.

The physics was a cheat(you can lug around that ultra-heavy sword even when nearly overburdened by "picking it up"), and the only thing morrowind needed in terms of physics was detection of when you pyll an item out from under a stack, and even then all they needed was for the stack to drop until it was no longer floating.

[Puck]

Someday, I wish to be shown why being successful is bad.

I guess that's why:

[Yanlin]

So IQ forms a perfect bell curve? OMG CONSPIRACY!

[Puck]

I guess it's just that evolution suffers from OCD, probably.

[Neonivek]

It is probably the goal of IQ tests that the bell curve is to show.

It isn't the true intelligence it is where they want the percents of the populations to fall within those percents.

[Sowelu]

It is probably the goal of IQ tests that the bell curve is to show.

It isn't the true intelligence it is where they want the percents of the populations to fall within those percents.

The IQ test is normalized every so often so that the median falls right on 100, yes.  It's most useful as a relative comparator.

Also, the people who designed the test never said that it measured intelligence.  They said it measured IQ.  Of course it's not perfect, it's an enormous contrivance.

Still, it does help illustrate a lot of obvious-but-painful things, like "Almost half of the country has a below-average intelligence!"  And knowing how big that 70-85 range is does help you understand society a lot better.  It's NOT obvious that IQ should form a bell curve--I mean, it makes perfect sense when you see it, but it wouldn't have been surprising if their test had originally showed more of an Erlang distribution, or some other thing with a tail that's different on each side of the peak.

[Random832]

The IQ test is normalized every so often so that the median falls right on 100, yes.  It's most useful as a relative comparator.

Is just the median normalized, or are other scores normalized as well to fit a bell curve? (i.e. is it normalized so the 74th percentile falls on 115 as depicted in the graph etc etc, or does that happen naturally)

[ToonyMan]

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[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Only on bay12 can a topic go this far astray and no-one will really mind.

This isn't derailment as much as teleportation to mars.

[ToonyMan]

Both are healthy for the skin.  Like broclick.


er..


I.Q.!

[Tormy]

Someday, I wish to be shown why being successful is bad.

I guess that's why:

Well to be honest...I don't want to meet with those people, who have less than 70 IQ...

[ToonyMan]

100 I.Q. means you're "normal" and are the majority.  Everything else is just awesome.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

100 I.Q. means you're "normal" and are the majority.  Everything else is just awesome.

Or drooling.

[ToonyMan]

Idiots are awesome, they do the funniest stuff "normal" people would never do.  Like staple their hand(s) to a desk.

[JoshuaFH]

Idiots are awesome, they do the funniest stuff "normal" people would never do.  Like staple their hand(s) to a desk.

"Normal" people have been known to do that stuff too.