Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-35766731-20180606011248/@comment-31046107-20200803091929

the level of an esper does not take intelligence into account Misaka Mikoto may have a 3 digit IQ (like most of us I hope) but the majority of esper in AC have normal intelligence (like someone with BAQ level) Lvl 4 are not necessarily smarter than level 1 or 3

Misaka has a high intellectual capacity (she can walk past 500 students without sweating, read a book and understand 60% of it, knows the different dynasties of China, knows how to speak French, Russian, English Japanese, etc ...) but not necessarily an extraordinary IQ she has a normal intelligence to see a little more like most of us "~ 105" but not necessarily a genius with an IQ of 150

uiharu a level 1 and extremely strong in computer science much more than Misaka but I am not on which will beat misaka in terms of knowledge Soggita Gunha a level 5 and not stupid he has a normal intellegence but he gets crushed by uiharu or any student of tokiwadai or nagatenjouki accelerator to a normal intelligence (when the guy took advantage of the terrain to create plasma thanks to his vectoring power "in short I don't think he just developed this technique he must have thought a long time before to use it against touma ) but these surely a dunce in knowledge see a normal guy like most of us

Intelligence = / = IQ IQ = ability to learn, memorize, find solutions faster than average, these all you can have an IQ of 130 but be a grub who struggles to make a head strategy on a random combat or strategy game