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IQ Testing Question  via Feddlefew on 2/10/2014 | 29 votes
Should norns be able to pass the traditional IQ test right from birth?
 
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Doringo | 3/2/2014  log in to like post

Done it before.

The flaw about it is, they usually follow the home scent when they get homesick, rather than following the "food" scent. I believe it's because norns get homesick faster than they get hungry?
 
Nutter | 2/11/2014  log in to like post

I'm assuming by "traditional" IQ test you mean lower workshop to meso - so they have to sense food, know to seek it out, and be able to use elevators and doors. So an IQ test is testing two different things. Babies should have instincts to eat and move towards food, but I can see the advantage of not turning on instincts for movers - especially if you could breed into mum the idea that she ought to lay her egg near a food source, for example.
 
ylukyun | 2/10/2014  log in to like post

Yes, unless they somehow have a parent capable of looking after them until they reach childhood.
 
InsanityPrelude | 2/10/2014  log in to like post

I voted yes for the same reason as Papriko, although I can understand why, flavor-wise, vanilla navigation instincts don't switch on immediately ("why would they be born knowing how elevators work?";)
 
Papriko | 2/10/2014  log in to like post

Well, I think so. They are usually tested right after birth, so it'd be rather disadvantageous when the intelligence only develops later on.


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