Originally Posted By: williamani
i think Lailai is meaning:

il = average point

a average point is how many points it can be off.
I've already explained why I don't think this is the case in my first response to LaiLai.
Originally Posted By: Lurkily
This "Importance Level" seems to only raise the number by 0.5, but I'm not sure how you got 0.5 out of levels 2 and 3. Adding them together should give you a much larger +5.


Also, example two doesn't provide a range of numbers that is less likely on the outside of the range, but MORE likely on the outside of the range. To make it weirder, the range stretched from almost the average all the way to the same number as one of the parents. (Rather than, say, 4 digits above and below the average.)

Because of the discrepancies in both examples, I think what LaiLai is trying to do isn't nearly that simple. No operation like what you describe could possibly, concievably result in example two: something else has to be going on in LaiLai's suggestion.