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Top 100 Living Geniuses
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Top 100 Living Geniuses

RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

12= Ali Javan (Iranian) Engineer 20
67= Steve Wozniak (American) Engineer and co-founder of Apple Computers 7
83= David Warren (Australian) Engineer 5
94= Thomas A. Jackson  (American) Aerospace engineer  3

Plus a few computer scientists and at least one Roboticist who in some schools of thought may be engineers.

Interestingly:

43= Osama Bin Laden (Saudi) Islamicist 10

I seem to recal someone saying he had an engineering degree, or am I making things up again?

KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...

RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

Oh wow....this has got to be a joke, no?  Please tell me that there is no one living, with a brain, that considers some of these people as "geniuses".  What was the criteria for pete's sake?

Meryl Streep?
Mohammed Ali?
George Soros?
Paul McCartney?
David Bowie?
Dolly Parton?

Are you sure they didn't confuse the "Peoples Choice Awards" for "greatest genius"?  

And what defines a "greatest" genius anyway?  Ha!  


RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

Prince?  Sure, he has merit.  Beach Boys and not Bobby McFerrin or John Williams or Phil Keaggy?  Losing credibility fast!

A list without any supporting basis?  Worthless.

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RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

Some interesting inclusions here

Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm, chose their geniuses by awarding scores out of 10 to each entrant against a number of factors: paradigm shifting; popular acclaim; intellectual power; achievement and cultural importance.

According to their defintion being a genius isn't being "IQ smart" as the measure; its a popularity and success vote. I was wondering how I didnt make the list winky smile

Oxford dictionary
genius /jeeniss/
  • noun (pl. geniuses) 1 exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability. 2 an exceptionally intelligent or able person. 3 (pl. genii /jeeni-i/) (in some mythologies) a spirit associated with a person, place, or institution. 4 the prevalent character or spirit of a nation, period, etc.
  — ORIGIN Latin, also in the sense ‘spirit present at one’s birth’, from gignere ‘beget’.

IQ Scale
145-164 - Genius
165-179 - High genius
180-200 - Highest genius

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RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

They include JK Rowling - Author of Harry potter. As soon as I saw that I lost interest.

She is good at what she does, but a genius? - definately not. I can think of a dozen authors in the scifi/fantasy genre that run rings around her.

Note the high number of british and American names on the list - definately written by a british/American team.

csd

RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

Maybe JK Rowling is considered genius because of the way she has sucked in so many people to make millions of dollars smile

RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

Rolling Stones were genial and also the Lady Jane song of my youth.

RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

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Wow, if some of these people are geniuses, I haven't been giving myself the nearly the credit I deserve!

I've noticed these types of lists have been getting more and more ridiculous with each passing year.  Look at this year's Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

Star to MRM,

I should give myself more credit....
 
Although there are alot of good ones on there, the problem is that the collected this list by polling people who clearly didnt even look at the definition of geniuses!

RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

I ment to add this to my last post.

"The company emailed 4,000 Britons this summer and asked them to nominate up to 10 living people who they considered geniuses."

RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

I believe one of the Spice Girls just barely missed the top 100. Oh well, there's always next year!

V

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"When I am working on a problem, I do not think of beauty, but when I've finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

- R. Buckminster Fuller

RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

0707:

Are you really a genious (sic)?  Or did I miss the obvious spelling joke?

All:

As we all know of course, genius is something you may have, not be.

RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

What Joke?SomptingGUY

As you see I am not a genious.


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RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

I saw Matt Groenig on there.  I knew he was a genious.  How else could he keep coming up with so many seasons of the Simpsons without any character development.  I mean really, shouldn't Maggie be talking by now?  Shouldn't Lisa be in college?  Shouldn't Bart be working in demolition, swinging that ball around on a crane?

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RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses

A START TO MONKEYDOG!

Genius not geniuous

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