On January 19 2008 12:03 zdd wrote: Having a bigger head doesn't mean being smarter, look at elephants, whales, and other big headed creatures versus monkeys and ravens, who are clearly more intelligent.
It's the brain size compared to the body size of the animal that determine how intelligent it is. Roughly said atleast.
Brain size compared to the spine length is usually what they use.
Btw, mathematically the worlds smartest man should have roughly 260 IQ, and any IQ test going over ~140 is inaccurate since then you usually have a to small sample size to calc how many the testers are smarter than. With an IQ of 200 this guy is just smarter than ~99,9993% of the population.(In a puzzle solving way)
On January 19 2008 16:44 TheFoReveRwaR wrote: IQ is not an effective measure of intelligence.
Hello Captain Obvious!
Hi? If its so obvious why did the op claim this man was the smartest man in the world because of his IQ when he clearly is not? I agree it should be pretty obvious. But apparently some people were unaware.
at 1:37 in the video, "the smartest man in the world."
I understood he was just using that opening as the thread title, not actually claiming/saying anything.
Well either way my point remains the same. Replace op with "makers of the video"
I think the title was ironic.
Errol Morris specializes in documentaries of interesting people you can feel superior to, no matter who you are or how much you've fucked up your own life.
The theme of this show was, "Here's a guy who thinks he's the smartest man in the world. How many things do YOU see him getting obviously wrong or doing poorly?"
That makes a lot of sense. And to be fair this guy is not "dumb" at all, but I feel he has traits that severely limit, stunt, and in the the end, undermine his intelligence.
IQ tests also measure only a specific type of intelligence. I feel that being too strong in one area and too weak in others will, in the end, only hurt you ability to be "successful" in the normal sense of the word.
I'm sure this man may be an amazing analytical mathematician, but he would be an absolutely horrid lawyer. And if you cannot articulate and share your ideas with others in a logical verbal way, you are at a great disadvantage over someone who can. No matter how intelligent you may be.
I still feel Stephen Hawking is one(well really the most, that I've had significant amount of exposure to) of the most intelligent people I've ever read.
On January 19 2008 20:39 Jim wrote: lol at that guy.
one of those smart but dumb people
i couldn't have said it better myself. it doesn't matter what your IQ is, and i hope whoever came into this thread believing in that bullshit would have had their disillusionment corrected by now.
even if he was that intelligent, who cares? what has he contributed to science, to humans, to society? this guy is a jokeeee
There are so many geniuses in the world, and they all have different areas of expertise. I cannot help but ridicule a guy, who thinks he is closer to absolute truth than any other human on earth after top scoring in an IQ test.
He may be a very smart guy, but a lot of people in the world are. Einstein was a genius of physics, but still David Hilbert said that he is a lousy mathematician compared to the people in Göttingen.
Do you know that a lot of the mathematics behind the general relativity was developed before Einstein´s work? Noone could relate it to physics though. Now were those mathematicians even more ingenious than Einstein? The answer is they were geniuses of a different kind.
Since none of you are reading my post on the first page, I find it necessary to reiterate that this guy is a fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design, which is a society of whores for every creationist group in America.
This man taints himself and his opinions by associating himself with such groups.
Ironic that he would come down on academics who he feels do no real work and hog resources, when he himself is affiliated with an extention of a polical lobbiest group, rendering everything and anything he writes suspect.
How can he go on and on about how the high IQ community is a group of rouge geniuses that we should all trust our lives with when he's nothing but a whore for the American religious right?
I'm sure this man may be an amazing analytical mathematician, but he would be an absolutely horrid lawyer. And if you cannot articulate and share your ideas with others in a logical verbal way, you are at a great disadvantage over someone who can. No matter how intelligent you may be.
Don't insult mathematicians. Show me some "amazing analytical math" this guy has done.
On January 19 2008 12:37 ManaBlue wrote: I watched the whole thing and was actually pretty disappointed. I thought he was actually going to display his intelligence and speak on something.
Instead he babbled on for one of the most pretentious and narcissistic speeches I have ever heard. There's a reason no one knows who he is, and why he's contributed nothing to science or anything else productive.
From his wiki article: "Langan is a fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design (ISCID),[20] a professional society which promotes intelligent design,[21] and has published a paper on his CTMU in the society's online journal Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design in 2002.[22] Later that year, he presented a lecture on his CTMU at ISCID's Research and Progress in Intelligent Design (RAPID) conference.[23] In 2004, Langan contributed a chapter to Uncommon Dissent, an essay collection of works that question Darwinian evolution edited by ISCID cofounder and leading intelligent design proponent William Dembski.[24]"
That's all I needed to read to know this guy is a douche.
My thoughts exactly.
None of us ManaBlue? I quoted you and said "my thoughts exactly" lol.
I'm sure this man may be an amazing analytical mathematician, but he would be an absolutely horrid lawyer. And if you cannot articulate and share your ideas with others in a logical verbal way, you are at a great disadvantage over someone who can. No matter how intelligent you may be.
Don't insult mathematicians. Show me some "amazing analytical math" this guy has done.
I should have clarified/picked my words more carefully. What I really meant was, he has the mental capacity to be an amazing analytical mathematician if properly educated because IQ is a strong measurement of such qualities.
Not that he currently his one. Of course he isn't, hes a bar tender with no accomplishments at all in mathematics
Summary: Some people in IQ make a magazine, make their own test, a janitor solves them, and he is "the world's smartest man".
(at least I think that is right, I heard about this guy a long time ago and didn't rewatch the videos)
All IQ tests are not equal. Is that much better than some of the online IQ tests out there? As far as any professional credibility of the test, I don't think so.
On January 19 2008 12:37 ManaBlue wrote: I watched the whole thing and was actually pretty disappointed. I thought he was actually going to display his intelligence and speak on something.
Instead he babbled on for one of the most pretentious and narcissistic speeches I have ever heard. There's a reason no one knows who he is, and why he's contributed nothing to science or anything else productive.
From his wiki article: "Langan is a fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design (ISCID),[20] a professional society which promotes intelligent design,[21] and has published a paper on his CTMU in the society's online journal Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design in 2002.[22] Later that year, he presented a lecture on his CTMU at ISCID's Research and Progress in Intelligent Design (RAPID) conference.[23] In 2004, Langan contributed a chapter to Uncommon Dissent, an essay collection of works that question Darwinian evolution edited by ISCID cofounder and leading intelligent design proponent William Dembski.[24]"
That's all I needed to read to know this guy is a douche.
My thoughts exactly.
None of us ManaBlue? I quoted you and said "my thoughts exactly" lol.
This analogy has already been used in this discussion but its soo true. You could have a supercomputer, but if you just fill it up with shit, then its still a waste of time.
On January 20 2008 00:10 Servolisk wrote: Summary: Some people in IQ make a magazine, make their own test, a janitor solves them, and he is "the world's smartest man".
(at least I think that is right, I heard about this guy a long time ago and didn't rewatch the videos)
All IQ tests are not equal. Is that much better than some of the online IQ tests out there? As far as any professional credibility of the test, I don't think so.
I strongly disagree, all IQ test ARE equal, because none of them can really measure intelligence.
EPT
