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(Message started by: Karotto on Sep 9^th, 2008, 12:43pm)

Title: The smartest man in the world
Post by Karotto on Sep 9^th, 2008, 12:43pm

Who is the man (or the woman) with the highest IQ in the world?

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by towr on Sep 9^th, 2008, 3:11pm

Possibly, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant
Since 1989 the Guinness book of world records has omitted the category. And really, who cares; the primary thing an IQ test shows is once skill at doing IQ tests, not intelligence.
Just consider this; if you tell people they will do badly at such a test, they easily score 10 points lower than when you tell them they will excel at it.

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by chriscalo123 on Apr 7^th, 2009, 10:20pm

Umm, I'd say the 12 year old surgeon in India gets my vote. Personally, I think IQ is overrated because there are a lot of really smart people with little knowledge and effort.

The quote that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration rings true by me.

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by JiNbOtAk on Apr 13^th, 2009, 2:48am

Would a really smart person be smarter than who he is if he was born at a different time ? E.g. If Aristotle were born 20 years ago, would his findings rival that of Newton or Einstein ? Or would he just be some average guy ?

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by towr on Apr 13^th, 2009, 4:21am

on 04/13/09 at 02:48:38, JiNbOtAk wrote:

I don't know if his findings would rival Newton's or Einstein's, but I think he would certainly be above average. I think he'd have the curiosity and drive to be a very good scientist and philosopher.

And maybe if reincarnation is true, he was all three ;)

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by JiNbOtAk on Apr 14^th, 2009, 4:28am

I guess I didn't put my point clearly. What I was trying to ask is, does a person's IQ depends on when he is born ? Let's face it, when Einstein put forth his Relativity Theory, rumour has it only 3 person in the world understood it. Now, even highschool students are able to explain the concept. Thus, if Einstein were born now, would he be capable of theorising much more advanced theories, or would relativity be his limit ?

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On second thought, I don't think my second attempt was any better.. :P

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by towr on Apr 14^th, 2009, 4:57am

There isn't much evolution in our brain's design, I think. So if someone was in the top percentile X eons ago, (s)he would probably be in the top percentile now.
But education makes a big difference in how that intellect is utilized. People are getting increasingly better at taking IQ tests as years pass; not so much because they are getting smarter, but because they are taught how to think in a way that makes you excel at IQ tests.

Also, most people still don't understand relativity. The explanation a highschool student would give is generally easy to shoot holes in. In as much as they even give an explanation, rather than merely some consequences of the theory.

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by wade32 on Apr 7^th, 2012, 7:20am

on 04/13/09 at 02:48:38, JiNbOtAk wrote:

I don't think Aristotle's findings would rival Newton or Einstein, I think that if he had been born 20 years ago, then HE would be reading about the power of dialogue from Theophrastus. If Aristotle had been born 20 years ago, perhaps Alexander the Great would not have ruled most of the world either!
Read more at http://home.wlu.edu/~mahonj/Ancient_Philosophers/Aristotle.htm

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by pandasbox on Dec 15^th, 2012, 2:21am

Memory, logic, and synthesis constitutes conventional definitions of intelligence. A person's abilities in one is not always related to the other.

The IQ gives a generally accepted weightings to various combinations problems in different subjects. It's not a good measure of advanced specialized knowledge.

Some really smart people possess specialized abilities in a distinct field and is able to make great contributions to it, while lacking in many other types of abilities. Others are "well-rounded" and possess a good amount of abilities and perform well on the IQ test.

In addition, some really brilliant people also experience psychological disabilities (John Nash from A Beautiful Mind is a good example).

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by marlonmark on Jan 2^nd, 2013, 1:14am

According to me its Sir Albert Einstein.

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by wwwmoderation on Jan 9^th, 2013, 6:30pm

For me its Albert Einstein... The one and only..

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by webtasarim on Oct 6^th, 2013, 5:54pm

iq shouldnt be criterion. i think einstein the smartest one

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by goodRiddler on Nov 22^nd, 2013, 10:29pm

Everyone is asking if Aristotle would be as great now as he was when he was born, and the answer is probably not. He probably wouldn't be as well known. Genetics is not the only factor in determining how smart you are. Nurture is equally important if not more important. Aristotle had the pleasure of being taught by Socrates, having a well-off family, and being exposed to more information than most people of his time. Most people aren't and he probably wouldn't be if he were born recently.

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by towr on Nov 22^nd, 2013, 11:01pm

on 11/22/13 at 22:29:18, goodRiddler wrote:

Aristotle had the pleasure of being taught by Socrates,

I think you're confusing Aristotle and Plato...

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by ramandeep on Nov 23^rd, 2013, 3:02am

Hank's last words to Walt bring us back to the first season when Hank would pick on Walt for being so smart.

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by erica on Jan 25^th, 2014, 3:40am

I would like to vote Sir. Albert Einstein as a top most genius!

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by anglia on Jul 24^th, 2015, 1:42am

I someone have to take world record challenge then what kind of IQ test need to do.

Title: Re: The smartest man in the world
Post by gitanas on Jan 27^th, 2016, 12:13am

Albert Einstein once said that his brain is normal size and his IQ not so high.

He said that he just had a good imagination :)