From: hardman@throb.mcws.fidonet.org (Bill Hardman)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: PV equation
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 01:59:34 PST
Reply-To: hardman@throb.mcws.fidonet.org (Bill Hardman)
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Organization: Bark At The Moon Productions

gisle@ifi.uio.no (Gisle Hannemyr) writes:

> 
> Just another note on that "scientific" equation from "Dianetics":
> 
> 		      PV=I*D^x
> 
>       where:
> 	 PV = potential value of an individual or group
> 	 I  = intelligence (presumably IQ)
> 	 D  = the "Dynamic".  This is a number between 1 and 4
> 	      indicating where the individual are within 4 "dynamics".
> 	 x  = the magnitude on which the person is surviving on the
> 	      dynamic, it is a number between 1 and 10
> 
> Thanks to Bill Hardman, we now know how to apply it (if we're not too
> fussy about things that pesky mathematicans care about, like units).
> His instructions are quite simple, viz:
> 
> >>> Insert the known factors and use standard algebra.
> 
> So I'll like to use this formula to compute the potential value (PV) of
> two individuals, named "A" and "B".
> 
> Both are nice, caring persons so I'll set both their Dynamics (D) to
> 3. I'll estimate that the magnitude person A is surviving on the
> dynamic (x) to 8, while person B is doing slightly worse, amd score 6.
> Now, person A is an absolute moron, and his IQ equals 70, while person
> B is a genious that matches John Holifield's 156 IQ points:
> 
>     So we have:
> 
>               Person A   Person B
>           I:        70        156
>           D:         3          3
>           x:         8          6
>      and computing PV=I*D^x :
>          PV:    459270     113724
> 
> So -- it looks like the "Potential Value" of the guy with an IQ in the
> 70'ies is more than FOUR TIMES that of the guy with an IQ in the
> genius range.  That's probably the political correct thing to believe
> these days, but I guess that the moron will have a darn hard time
> realizing that incredible potential to the extent that he actually
> becomes four times as sucessful as the genious.
> 
> Honestly, it really looks like this theory can need a bit more work...

Well yes it would.  If a moron was able to create greater conditions
of change for the better in his environment, thereby warranting an x
value of 8.  It would also mean that scant better than half of the
genius's efforts were successful at implimenting change in his
environment.  Two years ago, a 5 year old in South Africa was found
to posess the highest IQ in the world.  Some 200+ or something to
that effect, as published in the Los Angeles Times.  Since he could
not read or write, his effects on his first dynamic would be less
than 33% (or 3 for an x value).  He was the effect of his family's
actions, putting him in the 33% and below level.  He was in no way
involved with his tribes decisions, putting him at 0% on the third
dynamic, so D would be 2.  By comparison, B would be a moron
compared to this child, but using the equation, you can see that B's
PV is substantially higher.
        It isn't hard to see that if there is more control over a
dynamic, there is greater potential value in the individual.  A
genius sitting in a room, failing to interact with himself, others,
his community, or mankind is worthless.

Bill Hardman





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