What is the IQ scale based off of?
What difference does 1 IQ more make? or 10 more make?
Can it ever change over time or is it a creature’s/person’s own level of understanding rather than what they know?
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It’s important to realize that IQ is not a precise measurement. Measuring intelligence is extremely difficult as there are many different ways in which we learn and apply skills, and even on a day to day basis we function at differing levels.
IQ was simply an attempt to try and measure intelligence in a person, but it cannot tell the whole picture, just a very vague idea that someone may have higher or lower aptitude for learning. 100 being statistically the average.
It’s similar to being able to tell how good someone is at a skill like playing darts. The score in a single game may not represent their skill, but if a person consistently can score high, you get the idea that they’re pretty good at the game. That said, just like with game scores, IQ of a few points here and there doesn’t tell you that much.
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