Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150307200513/@comment-25177957-20150309044857

The Lord of Silence wrote: Actually I'd say no. I'd reckon the necron IQ as being around about the same as a humans, possibly a tad higher, but probably not. They only know so much because over time they have gained more knowledge. If that somehow increases your IQ, then people from the past must have had pretty small IQs, which seems unlikely (pyramids, the colossus, greek philosophers etc).

Also, learning does give you a higher IQ either. Your IQ is your base potential intellect, many people who could be smart aren't, because they'd prefer not to get into science or maths or engineering and so on. I may have done my estimate a little low, thinking about it, perhaps Emps would have an IQ equal to the total IQ of all the shamans who died to make him? But then again, I doubt that's how it works.

Also on my earlier point, unless there is something in the lore that says the Eldar have a higher IQ (no idea why you rated the Dark Eldar as being higher but whatever) than humans, I don't think its necessarily true. The Eldar have been around for a very long time, so of course they know tonnes. I fact, I'd say humans have advanced way faster than Eldar, implying that they have a lesser IQ than us. That would also fit for the necrons as well. Where in the lore does it not state that the Eldar are more intelligent than humans? First of all, the Eldar can experience more emotion than the average human, they can learn quicker, know more, and think quicker than a human, not to mention that it's been stated that their genetic structure is above humans. I put the Dark Eldar above the Craftworld Eldar on the IQ because the challenge of living in Commorragh requires sharp wits and high intelligence, which puts the most intelligent Dark Eldar above the most intelligent Craftworld Eldar, for example Vect was obviously more intelligent than say Eldrad Ulthran.

My analogy however was sort of a falsehood, you could say. There's no way we can use the modern, human-mind orientated IQ scale to rate aliens or God-like beings, I've said this before, we would do best to use comparisons, rather than numbers in order to figure out the Emperor's intelligence.