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  • B Bassam Abdul Baki

    My son asked me who's the smartest person in the world? Any ideas? If possible, we're looking for a Reed Richard's type who's great at most things. Otherwise, someone with the highest IQ. Dead and/or alive.

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    Jim Meadors
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    I don't know but reminds me of the punchline of an old joke, "No Worries, the smartest man in the world just jumped out of the plane with my backpack!" (3 guys on a plane, crashing, only 2 parachutes...)

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    • B Bassam Abdul Baki

      My son asked me who's the smartest person in the world? Any ideas? If possible, we're looking for a Reed Richard's type who's great at most things. Otherwise, someone with the highest IQ. Dead and/or alive.

      Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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      DaveAuld
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      From the telly I have seen lately and the amount of air-time, Professor Brian Cox thinks he is! :)

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      • B Bassam Abdul Baki

        My son asked me who's the smartest person in the world? Any ideas? If possible, we're looking for a Reed Richard's type who's great at most things. Otherwise, someone with the highest IQ. Dead and/or alive.

        Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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        Joezer BH
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        It depends on what you define as "a person"

        Cheees, Edo

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        • B Bassam Abdul Baki

          My son asked me who's the smartest person in the world? Any ideas? If possible, we're looking for a Reed Richard's type who's great at most things. Otherwise, someone with the highest IQ. Dead and/or alive.

          Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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          Sander Rossel
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          Wrong question... Sons are supposed to think their daddy is the smartest person in the world. At least until they turn 12.

          It's an OO world.

          public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
          public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
          }

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          • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

            Wrong question... Sons are supposed to think their daddy is the smartest person in the world. At least until they turn 12.

            It's an OO world.

            public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
            public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
            }

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            Joezer BH
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            Great signature Naerling :laugh: BTW, I once had a cousin who was a half-naerling...

            Cheees, Edo

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            • J Joezer BH

              Great signature Naerling :laugh: BTW, I once had a cousin who was a half-naerling...

              Cheees, Edo

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              Pete OHanlon
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              It's just a shame that you spelled his name wrong. After all, it's not as though it was on the screen in front of you.

              I was brought up to respect my elders. I don't respect many people nowadays.
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              • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                IQ would have to do then. Unless someone like "The Librarian" character comes along with multiple degrees in multiple fields and actually practices what he or she's learned.

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                Mark_Wallace
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                The IQ scale is to measure how much practice you've had at doing silly little puzzles, and is completely useless for discerning anything else.

                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                • P Pete OHanlon

                  It's just a shame that you spelled his name wrong. After all, it's not as though it was on the screen in front of you.

                  I was brought up to respect my elders. I don't respect many people nowadays.
                  CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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                  Joezer BH
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                  True, a proof that even I can make mistakes...

                  Cheees, Edo

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                  • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                    My son asked me who's the smartest person in the world? Any ideas? If possible, we're looking for a Reed Richard's type who's great at most things. Otherwise, someone with the highest IQ. Dead and/or alive.

                    Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                    Dalek Dave
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                    How can the smartest person alive be 'Alive or Dead'? I am striking you off the list.

                    --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]

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                    • M Matthew Faithfull

                      I've been fortunate to know a number of people with 160-170 IQs and a number of other exceptional people. Met a guy who new the entire UK tax code, clause by clause at the age of 22, he's probably a billionaire by now and another who's one of less than 10 people in the world who actually fully understand both UK and European pension systems. I worked with a guy who was writing code against interfaces that Microsoft hadn't written yet but would get around to in 18 months time and he was close enough it took me 5 minutes to make it work when their new UI components showed up 2 years later. So how do you compare them? Is the guy who wins jeopardy smarter than the guy who wrote a novel where one in every 4 chapters was an internet news feed, in 1964? Are either of them smarter than the guy who lives his whole life without ever being called smart, without ever being rich and is happy every day?

                      "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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                      Jorgen Andersson
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                      Matthew Faithfull wrote:

                      Met a guy who new the entire UK tax code, clause by clause at the age of 22, he's probably a billionaire by sitting in a padded room now

                      "The ones who care enough to do it right care too much to compromise." Matthew Faithfull

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                      • M Matthew Faithfull

                        Yes. Leonardo gets my vote because he was so broad and so far ahead of his time with so little to build upon. Did you know they recently discovered that his glider design actually works, 350 years before the Wright brothers. :omg:

                        "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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                        Bergholt Stuttley Johnson
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                        Not only that but he must also be in line for the oldest man alived too! (personnely I thought he was Leslie Neilsen)

                        You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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                        • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                          My son asked me who's the smartest person in the world? Any ideas? If possible, we're looking for a Reed Richard's type who's great at most things. Otherwise, someone with the highest IQ. Dead and/or alive.

                          Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                          leppie
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                            The IQ scale is to measure how much practice you've had at doing silly little puzzles, and is completely useless for discerning anything else.

                            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                            Bassam Abdul Baki
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                            I take it you're not good at silly little puzzles then? :)

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                            • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                              Wrong question... Sons are supposed to think their daddy is the smartest person in the world. At least until they turn 12.

                              It's an OO world.

                              public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
                              public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
                              }

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                              Bassam Abdul Baki
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                              Boom tish! My eight year old thinks at a twelve year old level. :)

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                                Neil deGrasse Tyson[^]

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                                Bassam Abdul Baki
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                                Nice resumé!

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                                • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                                  I take it you're not good at silly little puzzles then? :)

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                                  Mark_Wallace
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                                  I think just about everyone in this trade is good at silly puzzles. The thing is that if you do a lot of them for a week, you can do them better, and, according to idiots like the mensa bunch, that means that you're more intelligent at the end of the week than you were at the beginning.

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                                  • D Dalek Dave

                                    How can the smartest person alive be 'Alive or Dead'? I am striking you off the list.

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                                    Richard Deeming
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                                    It could be Erwin Schrödinger in a box.


                                    "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

                                    "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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                                    • M Mark_Wallace

                                      I think just about everyone in this trade is good at silly puzzles. The thing is that if you do a lot of them for a week, you can do them better, and, according to idiots like the mensa bunch, that means that you're more intelligent at the end of the week than you were at the beginning.

                                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                      Bassam Abdul Baki
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                                      Mark_Wallace wrote:

                                      ... if you do a lot of them for a week, you can do them better, and ... that means that you're more intelligent at the end of the week than you were at the beginning.

                                      And you disagree with this why? The fact that you're doing them better should imply that you're learning to do something faster and more efficiently, which means that you should becoming more intelligent in this (puzzles) aspect. Now if they were to give you a slightly different test and you can't use what you've learned from this to solve that, then I agree, you haven't learned much. But tests have been and will always be subjective. Just because you test well doesn't mean you're smart, and just because you test poorly doesn't make you an idiot. However, tests should give us an idea of where a person lies and what they're good at.

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                                      • R Roger Wright

                                        I was going to nominate both of us for that honor. After all, you know everything there is to know except that you're an idiot, and I know that. ;P

                                        Will Rogers never met me.

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                                        Forogar
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                                        True, but are you as humble as I?

                                        - Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...

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                                        • F Forogar

                                          True, but are you as humble as I?

                                          - Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...

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                                          Roger Wright
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                                          Hmmm... Doubtful. I was once accused of being arrogant, but arrogance is a fault, and I haven't any.

                                          Will Rogers never met me.

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