Who is The Smartest Person in The World?

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Personally I think it's Hawking

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Impossible to know, test, prove.
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Christopher LanganChristopher Michael Langan has a verified IQ of 195.Christopher Langan is an American autodidact with an IQ reported to be between 195 and 210. He has been described as “the smartest man in America” as well as “the smartest man in the world” by the media.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/smartest-person-in-the-world-2011-12/#paul-allen-is-alleged-to-have-an-iq-of-160-1

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Hawking believes in Aliens and the world will end soon.

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I dun think Chris thinks he's the "Smartest Man in The World". Perhaps he is among them, but he is also well known for being unable to prove the existence of God. Perhaps Abdesselam Jolloul if you're interested in iq.

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Jolloul is 198. Langan has a standard Deviation of only 187

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Stephen Hawking has written another book.

It's about time.

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Cubronzo wrote:

I dun think Chris thinks he's the "Smartest Man in The World". Perhaps he is among them, but he is also well known for being unable to prove the existence of God. Perhaps Abdesselam Jolloul if you're interested in iq.

Chris Langdon has the highest IQ in the world atm...

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Smartest dude ever was Albert for sure...but he died

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ProfessorPownall wrote:

Stephen Hawking has written another book.

It's about time.

Haha I doubt it. Hawking is a physicist, not a Metaphysicist. He's not the so-called "genius" people claim him to be. There are tens of thousands of individuals, at least, who are far smarter than he is.

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You mean after kaynight?

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Smartest dude ever was Albert for sure...but he died

Einstein was only 156, but he was also very persistent and Iq wasn't very accurate back then

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SonOfThunder2 wrote:

Smartest dude ever was Albert for sure...but he died

Einstein was only 156, but he was also very persistent and Iq wasn't very accurate back then

If he lived now he would have been much smarter...just like Fischer and Carlsen...

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Marilyn vos Savant: 228...highest recorded i.q.

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TitanofChess65 wrote:

I think a girl who has a more IQ then Einstein and hawking for sure

Men have higher and lower iq scores than chicks, but considering they would both be around 160, I'm sure there are probably a hundred 6 year old girls smarter than both of them combined. 8 Billion people is a lot to remember.

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TitanofChess65 wrote:

I think a girl who has a more IQ then Einstein and hawking for sure

Ernt would probably score a perfect 200

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circa 1960-65, so the story goes...they gave my step grandfather, Steve Anson Coons, an early form of i.q. test as he was an engineering professor at MIT and the smartest dude they knew at the time. The test was being developed at MIT and they needed somebody at the high end....but he was too far off their scale and all they could determine was that it was over 200. There is still a bi-annual award at MIT in his name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Anson_Coons

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universityofpawns wrote:

circa 1960-65, so the story goes...they gave my step grandfather, Steve Anson Coons, an early form of i.q. test as he was an engineering professor at MIT and the smartest dude they knew at the time. The test was being developed at MIT and they needed somebody at the high end....but he was too far off their scale and all they could determine was that it was over 200. There is still a bi-annual award at MIT in his name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Anson_Coons

Bloody Brilliant! What kind of algebraic expressions did he invent?