Top 100 Living Geniuses
Top 100 Living Geniuses
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Interesting list.
See any engineers?
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RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses
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?
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and Steve Wozniak is identified as an engineer and co-founder of Apple,
David Warren, inventor of the flight recorder....http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2640793.stm
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov? (Well do we discount the claims that his design was based on German designs?)
ANyway, a couple of ostensible engineers and scope for debate.
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RE: Top 100 Living Geniuses
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
A list without any supporting basis? Worthless.
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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
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
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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.
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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.
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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!
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"The company emailed 4,000 Britons this summer and asked them to nominate up to 10 living people who they considered geniuses."
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I got an A+
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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.
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As you see I am not a genious.
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Genius not geniuous