How does Goku=10 and somewhat strong adult human=5 work?

[Warmmedown]

There's also initial Krillin, who is below 10.
Is 10 twice as strong as 5?
That means a quite typical adult human should be able to do half of at least some of these (whichever you think link to power level):
-sprint 100 yards/metres in 5 seconds
-swim across an ocean or sea like Krillin did
-deliver half as much milk as Goku did on day 1, while wearing 30kg
-get hit by a car and get up unharmed, while causing the car to turn over. Either half the car, half the speed or only take double the damage
-half of Goku's being shot by (the ever-essential) Bulma.
-half of dodging a jaguar/tiger. Dodge it from twice the distanceor dodge something that's twice as slow!
-push the boulder half as far as Goku did
-easily beat someone half as strong as Bear Thief, or at least put up a fight against Bear Thief (considering Bear Thief's PL is somewhere between 5 and 10 and Goku one-shotted him)

What does the relationship between a human child's PL and adult's suggest? Gohan aged 4's power level was 1. Is farmer 5x stronger than a 4yo human? Farmer's weak as fuck then. Or is the 1 rounded up from any number above 0 (eg 0.1)?

 

[SSJ2]

It doesn't. This is why I have Goku at 40.

 

[GSM123]

Gohan aged 4's power level was 1. Is farmer 5x stronger than a 4yo human? Farmer's weak as fuck then.

That’s pretty accurate for the difference between a child and an adult actually. But yeah, Goku is way more than 10. He was crushing giant boulders bare-handed.

 

[DBZAOTA482]

Well there's the Saiyan biological make-up, but I definitely think Goku was higher than 10 at the beginning of the series. He was more like 20.

 

[Animelover5487]

Well there's the Saiyan biological make-up, but I definitely think Goku was higher than 10 at the beginning of the series. He was more like 20.

Goku being a saiyan wasn't thought up in og db.

 

[Pyro]

Neither were power levels.

 

[Power Level Guy]

-easily beat someone half as strong as Bear Thief, or at least put up a fight against Bear Thief (considering Bear Thief's PL is somewhere between 5 and 10 and Goku one-shotted him)

Yeah, 10 ain't working for Goku.

Goku = 10 > Bear Thief > Expected Goku > Pterodon > Farmer

Cannot work. No human is doing anything to that damn Pterodon, that thing is destroying Hercule, Videl, everyone who is a normal human has absolutely not chance.

Goku absolutely wrecks that thing and Bulma thinks Goku has no chance against the Bear Thief.

Also, Farmer is not the strongest human, there's a human somewhere that's 1.2-1.33x stronger for sure, so Goku being 10 is just unworkable.

 

[Warmmedown]

Goku = 10 > Bear Thief > Expected Goku > Pterodon > Farmer

[...]Pterodon[...]

Goku absolutely wrecks that thing and Bulma thinks Goku has no chance against the Bear Thief.

You say that like Bulma has any way of knowing who's stronger by looking at them. It's hard for her to compare a dinosaur to a talking bear
I don't remember it, but she could just be a pessimist at that stage. Easier to accept he's going to lose, than get her hopes up.

 

[Power Level Guy]

You say that like Bulma has any way of knowing who's stronger by looking at them.

Bulma should be quite familiar with Goku's level of strength at this point.

 

[Warmmedown]

It's like a human trying to figure out which animal is stronger (between a dinosaur and bear). Doubt she could. She's not a fighter to assess Goku either.

 

[SSJ2]

It's like a human trying to figure out which animal is stronger (between a dinosaur and bear). Doubt she could. She's not a fighter to assess Goku either.

Bulma dodged bullets in the RRA arc. She’s probably beating 21st Namu level.

 

[Power Level Guy]

It's like a human trying to figure out which animal is stronger (between a dinosaur and bear). Doubt she could. She's not a fighter to assess Goku either.

Yeah, I think we are capable of doing that. It's easy to tell that a much bigger fighter is probably going to squash a much smaller one.

These kinds of expectations happen all the time in real life, no need for ki-sensing.