Who is The Smartest Person in The World?

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ChumpDavis123

So I have done some work on Eptigenetics and virtually anyone can get an idea of 200

SonOfThunder2

I don't know about you but if you can spot Kelsy you must have a IQ of at least 112...

PacificPatzer

In what field? This whole IQ thing is hilarious, you cannot measure imagination which is what fuels discovery. Those who discover new things, those who employ 'new knowledge' are the ones humanity holds as a 'genius' or that era's "smartest person". How is a mere test capable of identifying who knows 'something new' -- answer: It can't IQ tests are BS.

jijithoson

Lenhard Ng

Strangemover

jijithoson wrote:

Lenhard Ng

I'm not smart enough to pronounce his surname correctly.

SonOfThunder2
jrmagnus wrote:

In what field? This whole IQ thing is hilarious, you cannot measure imagination which is what fuels discovery. Those who discover new things, those who employ 'new knowledge' are the ones humanity holds as a 'genius' or that era's "smartest person". How is a mere test capable of identifying who knows 'something new' -- answer: It can't IQ tests are BS.

That's not true...I get your point but IQ tests have a purpose

jijithoson
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universityofpawns

I was just a little kid, like 5-10 years old when I knew him...he died of cancer in 1979....a few years after divorce of my paternal grandmother after 25 years of marriage. We would visit for the summer in New Hampshire...he lived at Garvin Hill....which was formerly a 18-19th century hotel + about 200 acres of land and George Washington had even reportedly spent a few nights there...you can see Mt. Washington from there, I think my grandmother sold it to a Senator or something when she got old. What I recall is that he was into aeronautics first and came up with a formula to approximate very efficient curved surfaces used on planes and boats. Later he was at MIT and a computer graphics pioneer....my grandmother even told me that he figured a way for computers to streamline the production of airplanes using histograms and using early computers....the ones that filled entire rooms. I remember circa 1965 he got the cover of Scientific American and it showed a monitor with colored curves on it....a breakthrough at the time. He was into many many things....liked optics and photography too. I also remember my grandmother telling me that Strobe was a friend of his and wanted him to work on the Strobe light (later a zillion??? dollar patent), but he was too busy at the time....we would have been rich if he was good at business....but he really couldn't care much about money other than being comfortable. Also he was quirky....drank a raw local-raised egg in a glass of milk for breakfast......sat for an hour once with his hand on our dog's chin lecturing him on how stupid he was, while the dog's tail wagged away.

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SonOfThunder2 escribió:
jrmagnus wrote:

In what field? This whole IQ thing is hilarious, you cannot measure imagination which is what fuels discovery. Those who discover new things, those who employ 'new knowledge' are the ones humanity holds as a 'genius' or that era's "smartest person". How is a mere test capable of identifying who knows 'something new' -- answer: It can't IQ tests are BS.

That's not true...I get your point but IQ tests have a purpose

Showing off.

itawditawaputtytat

if you have a low IQ, chances are you have a quote to discredit IQ tests.

universityofpawns

yeah, that may be true, intelligence is supposed to be related to how fast you can learn and understand....there is really no perfect test...."stupid is as stupid does".

itawditawaputtytat

I wasnt talking to you stupid.

P_S_S_23

Neil Degrasse Tyson or Carl Sagan. These are my favorite scientists.

P_S_S_23

or Bill Nye...

ProfessorPownall

"I know I am intelligent, because I know I know nothing"

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing"

Socrates

Geodexic

Maxwell

Moses