Xander
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But there is no strict definition of intelligence. It is one of those words which is bandied about but means very little. Do you not measure some people as intelligent, others as smart and others as cunning? Can you be smart without being intelligent? Can you be cunning without being intelligent? Surely all these things are also classically ascribed to intelligence but aren't the same word. What does intelligence mean? Does it include non-academic ability?Exactly right, hence use of the term "intelligence".
Have you really not met someone who could do maths until it came out of their ears, history until they could recite the exact details of the 100 year war including perfect quotes, learn science in half the time it took you... and yet fail completely to learn how to make tea or pack a suitcase without some basic error?
I'm not ruling anything out, just not giving them equal weight. When creating an RPG character, does one always distribute all the points in all areas equally? Hell no, because some skills are more valuable than others. And when it comes to homo sapiens, B-K brings up the rear.
Right let's use that analogy.
If I give strength higher priority then I'm looking to build a fighter or someone who uses strength. This runs true for every characteristic and skill in the game. I've played with high and low in all of them except CON, for obvious reasons in our games.
So there is no weighting involved other than my preference and the design I'm hoping to achieve. There is no ultimate stat. INT is not king and neither is any other stat. No amount of dexterity will make you better at walkin around in full plate, bar some limited circumstances, and no amount of strength will help you hit someone with a spell, unless it happens to be a spell placed on a heavy rock or something.
So to bring the analogy back to the test itself, if you are applying weighting to the various categories as the person who's set up the test then the test is based on biases. It's then essential to ensure that those biases are universal (objective) and not specific (subjective).