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Average IQ of EVE Players?

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Ridaz
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1 - 2015-03-31 00:12:41 UTC
So since this game requires a certain amount of aptitude and intelligence to really m̶a̶n̶i̶p̶u̶l̶a̶t̶e̶ play with others. I was wondering if the average IQ of the EVE player base is higher than other game's playerbase.
Paranoid Loyd
#2 - 2015-03-31 00:17:56 UTC
Gr8t B8t M8t

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Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#3 - 2015-03-31 00:18:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Mr Epeen
Ridaz wrote:
I was wondering if the average IQ of the EVE player base is higher than other game's playerbase.


Maybe the casuals since intelligent people tend to use their time increasing their thinking ability rather than stunting it by living in an MMO. Also compared to other games, I doubt that as well. Gamers have a certain mindset, not a certain intelligence.

I'd guess most gamers are pretty equal in intelligence across the entire MMO spectrum.

Mr Epeen Cool
Mag's
Azn Empire
#4 - 2015-03-31 00:40:59 UTC
It's either 42, or over 9000.

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HiltoftheDragons
Grievance3
#5 - 2015-03-31 00:45:23 UTC
I agree with epeen.

Its not intelligence but the seat time. Im sure the most intelligent person in the world can come in EVE or any game in that matter and act like a total moron until he or she have acquired the experience needed.

Seat time first, the intelligence comes later for the fine tuning process.

I also hear a thread lock creeping through the woods.......i heard leaves crunching.





Hmm mabey it was just the wind.

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Rowells
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2015-03-31 01:03:56 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
Gr8 B8 M8

FTFY?
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#7 - 2015-03-31 01:06:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Mr Epeen
Rowells wrote:
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
Gr8 B8 M8

FTFY?

You wouldn't have needed to fix that if he had a higher IQ.

Mr Epeen Cool
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#8 - 2015-03-31 01:07:16 UTC
you can't measure intelligence reliably

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Jenshae Chiroptera
#9 - 2015-03-31 01:36:31 UTC
Ridaz wrote:
So since this game requires a certain amount of aptitude and intelligence to really m̶a̶n̶i̶p̶u̶l̶a̶t̶e̶ play with others. I was wondering if the average IQ of the EVE player base is higher than other game's playerbase.
I have noticed quite a few people without the intelligence or socials skills to succeed but their egos prevent them from quitting.
Social skills > intelligence in EVE.
You are going to have a rough time of it OP. Blink

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Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#10 - 2015-03-31 02:08:49 UTC
from how much eve players drink I'd guess there is a downward trend on the number in the long run.

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stoicfaux
#11 - 2015-03-31 02:25:23 UTC
Bienator II wrote:
you can't measure intelligence reliably

But you can reliably measure stupidity. Well, actually we can't, but we can put an upper boundary on stupidity, namely the Darwin Award point.

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Desimus Maximus
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#12 - 2015-03-31 02:57:46 UTC
I don't think its really about IQ. Eve is based on simple mechanics that just take time to master. Those who play beyond their first encounter are merely more patient than others.

What should be measured is which side of the psychopath / sociopath scale and to what degree each Eve player lands on.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#13 - 2015-03-31 03:24:14 UTC
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#14 - 2015-03-31 03:41:48 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Bienator II wrote:
you can't measure intelligence reliably

But you can reliably measure stupidity. Well, actually we can't, but we can put an upper boundary on stupidity, namely the Darwin Award point.



by staying inside and expressing stupidity through Eve Online, and rather than in a more natural environment with dangerous things, where premature death is more likely, the chances of reproduction well, make your own joke. Either way we may have put humanity on a dangerous path.

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Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#15 - 2015-03-31 03:42:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Chainsaw Plankton
doh, forums seem to have ate my post and spit it back out

MY IQ IS POTATO!

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stoicfaux
#16 - 2015-03-31 03:48:37 UTC
Given that the average age of EVE players is in '30-ish something (cant find the reference,) maybe EVE players seem smarter by dint of maturity, experience and having careers.



Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Brylan Grey
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2015-03-31 03:53:52 UTC
"People who boast about their I.Q. are losers." -Stephen Hawking, New York Times interview, 2004.
Carrie-Anne Moss
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2015-03-31 04:02:51 UTC
I am really smart
Valkin Mordirc
#19 - 2015-03-31 04:02:53 UTC
Head over to Dodixie local and you can get your answer there.Shocked
#DeleteTheWeak
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#20 - 2015-03-31 04:05:13 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Given that the average age of EVE players is in '30-ish something (cant find the reference,) maybe EVE players seem smarter by dint of maturity, experience and having careers.


wait, no one gave me a career when I signed up X

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