The 16 Smartest People on Earth

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  1. Politics Junky

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    Those people are not "a little nuts." They are totally dysfunctional. This is a stupid list with deeply flawed methodology.

    You look at which country is tops for Nobel prizes. You look at which country is tops for billionaires. You look at which country is tops for creating new art forms (jazz, hip hop, etc) and exporting them around the world. Now look at that list. Does it in any way reflect real world results? Then?
     
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    That is funny, but some of those guys PRACTICE taking IQ tests. That skews the numbers, doesn't it? Plus, as most people know, IQ tests have been decided to NOT be an accurate measure of intelligence. And maybe women aren't into it to that degree. Or maybe they still have buried psychological hangers-on that women don't do as well as men.

    The 2 smartest people in the national spotlight that I can remember ever seeing are Charles Krauthammer and Newt Gingrich. I don't mean the KNOW more than other people, I mean that they are SMARTER (reasoning ability).
     
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    well you certainly are proof! *(not on the smart end:) )
     
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    The nobel peace prize, billionaire status, new art doesnt reflect high intelligence. I mean monkeys can make new art, monkeys can also, err, I mean Obama can win the nobel prize, and look at donald trump!
     
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    If you argument is that blacks are better off not being so smart you may have a point.

    But I'm guessing that not all the geniuses on the list are crazy.
     
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    But I am very stable.
     
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    It's notable that these people are scholars in the art of taking IQ tests. True geniuses don't need to take tests repeatedly, they simply think analytically about things and attempt to solve problems in new and original ways.
     
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    They all have eyes! People with eyes are clearly smarter... oh and noses too!!!! WTF is up with eyes and nose people have all the $$$$$$$$$ ????!!!!
     
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    Nope.

    While women tend to share the same IQ mean as men, their standard deviation is much smaller, eliminating populations in the tails of the normal curve, both really stoooopid and really smart.
     
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    You got it, there are more men idiots than women idiots. LOL
     
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    Lol!

    I noticed you had to slip that "peace" in there. My point is you can pick any narrow flawed metric and spin it to say whatever you want about "intelligence." Step back and look at a broad swath of human intellectual accomplishment and get a more realistic picture.
     
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    Hey, strawman. How's it going? Why does everything have to be about race with you? Did I say anything about race in my post?

    I just think any list that makes Croatians out to be more intelligent than Americans has a flawed methodology. That has nothing to do with the racial skirmishes you guys love so much on this forum. I've never seen so many people so caught up in race. By reading some of your posts you would think "blacks" are 60% of the US population. Why do you lay awake at night worrying about African Americans so much? Get a hobby.
     
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    Yea, I messed that one up, not sure why, but I thought thats what you posted. Thanks for the correction.
     
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    What exactly were my "subtle racist assertions" and what is my "cause" that you find so repugnant? I asked you to draw your own conclusions.....looks like the conclusions you came to didn't fit into your silly little "progressive" world view.....so you resort to attacking the messenger......funny stuff.
     

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