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They only reject 37.5%, not 62.5% Shannow Send a noteboard - 19/11/2012 03:19:19 PM
Morgase is probably as rare as Lanfear.


Unless she's perhaps not the weakest woman possible, just the weakest known. There may be levels (I'm not referring to the 21...) below Morgase where the ability isn't even really quantifiable by a channeler.

It's just that no Aes Sedai mentionning Morgase's strength did comment that it was unique or almost unique to find a woman so weak.

But yeah, it seems more likely women like Morgase are as rare as women around Lanfear's strength. Sorilea's strength is likely to be fairly rare too, if not as rare as Morgase's (perhaps more comparable to the rarity of women like Graendal).



True, but they did describe her ability as negligible. We already know that women can't detect strength with extreme precision (they describe dueling as the only real way to know if two similar women are really equal). It's likely that Morgase gives off such a weak resonance that discriminating higher and lower levels is impossible. It's all "negligible" until it's "not negligible".


Yup, but of course to AS anyone without the spark falling short of the benchmark strength to become an Accepted is "negligible". Hard to be sure Morgase really the weakest possible, a mirror of Lanfear at the other end.

The problem is women like Morgase aren't even "awakened" by AS if they're not sparkers. They did for Morgase out of a purely political agenda. They didn't invest much efforts in teaching her - they went through the motions and gave her the ring and that was it - and we know Morgase's problem is that she has a personality not naturally prone to anything like "surrendering". That would have made it hard for her, like Nynaeve for instance. I suspect her difficulties embracing the source have nothing at all to do with her puny strength and all to do with the AS giving up too soon. Then, obviously, Morgase would have had tons of problems training because she can't access enough saidar to do much of anything, and so she couldn't progress. In the AOL such a woman would have most likely been given a very low strength angreal to train and progress, then a bigger and a bigger. We know low strength people can become skilled weavers (Sorilea or Androl are examples). I'm pretty sure if Morgase had been born in the AOL, with an angreal like Moiraine's (the new one) she might have outshined most of today's AS's skills... If Elayne ever learns the making of angreal, she might very well make a decent channeler out of her mother one day.

Considering the rarity of some talents, it's pretty absurd the WT has set its standards so high that they reject 62.5% of women. There's no telling what talents women like Morgase might have. Even if a woman like Sorilea is deemed too weak to be full Aes Sedai, essentially out of fear for the Tower's image, she'd have been a formidable addition to the Tower, and given she's a fast learner and can already form complex weaves she's not strong enough to make work..she'd only need an angreal to be a good teacher, for instance.



62.5% are strong enough to pass. 32.5% are not. Which seems fair, I would say.
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How many standard deviations is Lanfear - 15/11/2012 06:04:39 PM 2301 Views
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We've always been close with everything except the scale - 18/11/2012 10:29:07 PM 1181 Views
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They only reject 37.5%, not 62.5% - 19/11/2012 03:19:19 PM 1203 Views
Re: They only reject 37.5%, not 62.5% - 19/11/2012 04:01:43 PM 1399 Views
Re: They only reject 37.5%, not 62.5% - 19/11/2012 09:04:04 PM 1158 Views
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That's the whole point. Thanks for finally seeing it. - 19/11/2012 09:43:27 PM 1195 Views
keep believing that ... but you making up numbers isn't really relevant *NM* - 20/11/2012 04:29:44 AM 772 Views
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I don't really agree - 18/11/2012 08:40:53 PM 1103 Views
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probably ... Lanfear/Cyndane is clearly remarkably skilled - 20/11/2012 02:35:09 PM 1168 Views
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You have proven nothing, except that you have an opinion *NM* - 18/11/2012 02:21:35 AM 749 Views
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You're right, though its 37.5% - 19/11/2012 12:21:29 AM 1116 Views
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You need to read it for yourself, since you're completely confused. - 20/11/2012 03:54:26 PM 1093 Views
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Your own example disproved your point... - 20/11/2012 04:39:25 PM 1170 Views
let's see, she's both asleep and would need hours to regain her strength - 20/11/2012 04:43:17 PM 1071 Views
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LOL ... whatever. You go on believing that ... no one else sees it this way. *NM* - 20/11/2012 05:20:52 PM 737 Views
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wrong - 20/11/2012 04:48:50 PM 1025 Views
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Exactly *NM* - 20/11/2012 04:55:28 PM 1074 Views
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Daigian - 19/11/2012 08:12:19 AM 1112 Views
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Explained far better than I ever could. Bravo. - 20/11/2012 07:30:29 AM 1078 Views
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It matters. - 20/11/2012 05:22:40 PM 1153 Views
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Re: Morghase is a placeholder... - 20/11/2012 04:49:54 PM 1477 Views
Why? - 20/11/2012 05:23:29 PM 1142 Views
Re: Why? - 20/11/2012 05:36:45 PM 1455 Views
Well... - 18/11/2012 08:43:59 PM 1177 Views
Re: Well... - 19/11/2012 03:40:44 PM 1158 Views
Wow. - 19/11/2012 03:53:47 PM 1182 Views
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Some points - 19/11/2012 06:03:00 PM 1250 Views
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Re: Well then you're both wrong I'm afraid - 19/11/2012 07:42:58 PM 961 Views
this is why I think all of the Forsaken are very close in Power - 20/11/2012 04:51:20 AM 1189 Views
Agreed - 20/11/2012 08:13:37 AM 1223 Views
probably - 20/11/2012 06:18:45 PM 1083 Views
Re: this is why I think all of the Forsaken are very close in Power - 20/11/2012 02:45:18 PM 1089 Views
I think RJ went out of his way to keep strength a bit of a mystery - 20/11/2012 08:42:44 PM 1107 Views
Indeed... - 21/11/2012 05:44:18 PM 1077 Views
I agree - 22/11/2012 01:43:02 AM 1325 Views
Math gurus...Is it possible to find the missing variable... - 21/11/2012 05:12:24 PM 1130 Views
the problem is that the Mean is not going to tell us much really - 22/11/2012 02:55:03 AM 1172 Views
Re: the problem is that the Mean is not going to tell us much really - 22/11/2012 03:15:33 AM 1499 Views
I do not think you can calculate the Mean without knowing the Units of Power - 22/11/2012 03:53:59 AM 1251 Views
Re: Math gurus...Is it possible to find the missing variable... - 23/11/2012 02:59:12 PM 1532 Views
Disregard this post *NM* - 23/11/2012 03:02:24 PM 964 Views

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