Quote Originally Posted by Anhysbys View Post
It's obviously Aliens.

Ignore the below fancy, fancy nerd talk if you don't want to be bored.
The high IQ idea seems plausible however, since it tends to go hand in hand with smarts. Although I have to be my regular smartypants self and say that an IQ even close to 200 is improbable, dang near impossible (a probability of .0000000000131549262) meaning if we take the world population and multiply it just by the probablility there would be .0899864651 people currently alive with an IQ atleast 200 (figuratively). This is going off a mean IQ of 100 and the Standard Deviation of 15, which sadly is generous. Average IQ is steadily declining and around year 2000 was an average of 89.2 before then.
Interesting thoughts, but the trick is not to set baseline IQ and then look at probabilities. I guess my IQ is not high enough to actually know anything about it. A mean of 100 and SD of 15 would put about 5% of the population at 55. At what level does one become classified as instituionalized because they are unable to care for themselves (Not, criminally insane). I wouldguess we distribution would have bell-like qualities, but have steeper curve lowside and an extended tail highside.

Anyway, back to We're Alive Mythos, Burt's smart in life smart in death idea may have merit, but What about "eyeQ" 8P ties to eye color and clairity? TOWTM that confront Michael, Saul and Burt had clear green eyes while multiple times we hear that the unwashed masses are foggy-eyed. I toyed with the idea of TOWTM not being a zombie, just fitting in well. But, catching an unexpected arrow in mid flight aint going to happen. The only way it works as a parlor trick is that the person catching the arrow controls both the distance and the timing of release. Not to mention Bow, arrow, the actual shooter. If you want to do a controled experiment where the "superhuman" is not calling the shots it just aint going to happen.