I really can't find this anywhere, but I would like to help this game out if I could. I don't mean to sound negative with this, but it didn't make sense to me when I did this.
I started a new game a few hours ago, and I was pretty pissed. I had this one Soldier, his mind was almost as good as the three stats above it COMBINED, (I don't remember them off of the top of my head), it was like 77 for his mind and the others totaled 83. And most of my scientists had Pathetic as the rating for mind attributes, but the other stats were nice. I think a minimum number for their specialty stat would be helpful, (ie have a 50 rating as a minimum for Scientists' mind attribute). I read that they're supposed to start with one stat higher than the others, but I don't recall an official minimum being set.
Also that one soldier with the 77 mind rating, started out with a HAND GRENADE as the equipped weapon in his hands. I had plenty of other weapons, but he chose a hand grenade as his primary........ :?
"Look at me, I have 3 hand grenades, and a combat knife, friendly fire, here I COME!!!!" :lol:
And yes this was with the latest release, my old saves were incompatable, so I had to start anew and there they were.