Ok, so you're acknowledging that the 7 billion IQ figure is pretty much arbitrary.
Let's move on to something more important - what the composite does with said intelligence. Let's pretend that the composite has unlimited intelligence. What does it do with that intelligence in a prep-less fight that turns the tide, because Mindship already demonstrated that the composite is only around mountain-level strength, which is well below the likes of a Superman or Hulk.
Originally posted by Sin I AMI would think a post-truth era would not bode well for intelligence.
☝. We arent that much more intelligent than we were a hundred uears ago. We just adapted to our surroundings. Id wager that we are in fact dumber due to a lack of drive for invention and loss of hunter/gatherer skills
Originally posted by Cogito
Just because it's a man-made measure doesn't mean you weren't using it wrong 👆
I wasn't using it as an exact measure, I was just expressing the abstract by using IQ numbers as most people are familiar with them and would thus understand the point I was making. that point being that someone with the combined intelligence of 7 billion people would be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> even the smartest person currently alive.
Originally posted by Cogito
It's not by a huge amount, but we are (on average) smarter than we were 100 years ago. That's not a product of evolution, as there haven't been enough generations to affect that, but almost entirely due to better nutrition. Can't vouch for any changes in creativity or motivation, however.
I dont think we are more intelligent honestly. I just think education is a more widespread human "need" as opposed to a century ago. If you took an average person and plucked him in the 15th century its not as if hed usher in the industrial revolution.
Originally posted by riv6672
That said, Marvel's Collective Man gives some idea of what might come of this, at least physically.
With the combined strength of 10 Thousand people he managed to get Sasquatch up offa him:
CM's most impressive feat, perhaps, is damaging Walker's pre-Pym upgrade vibranium shield with a single hit.
Originally posted by Cogito
facepalmAre schools that bad these days that they don't explain averages?
Christ, a composite is an average * the number of people. You're saying the same thing
That, of course is an impossibility for us.
However, if an average must be used, yours is way low. Marvel gave us a good one to use in the scan i posted. 10K humans = 100tons.