I'll throw in with Doc Rocket EdM, he's gotta be pretty sharp to have done all he's done. Steelhead, surprises me what he comes out with in terms of firearms knowledge.
NRA LIFE MEMBER GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS ESPECIALLY THE SNIPERS! "Suppose you were an idiot And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself." -Mark Twain
ltppowell told us long ago that the intelligent fire members, his friends, have left the building. Their exit has lowered the fire IQ average at least 40 points.
Reads like he felt he belonged to some elite clique?
If that were the case, I wouldn't still be here.
The only thing worse than a liberal is a liberal that thinks they're a conservative.
ltppowell told us long ago that the intelligent fire members, his friends, have left the building. Their exit has lowered the fire IQ average at least 40 points.
Reads like he felt he belonged to some elite clique?
If that were the case, I wouldn't still be here.
Whoa....Kismet! Proves you just never know who’s reading your posts. 😎
Curiosity Killed the Cat & The Prairie Dog “Molon Labe”
Based on soon to be 15 years of being a 24 Hour Campfire member and after years of reading posts made by many current and past members, some prolific posters, some not so much, others seldom, my best guess for highest overall IQ score would probably be the member that goes by the screen name "Barak".
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Great, I understand enough to be curious now on what the model was. My brain won’t shut off until I spend the next two hours in endless rabbit holes that will probably So far off the main search that I will scratch my head at the end as to how I got there. “I won’t search for it, I won’t search for it” You suck....
Laffin'. Don't Google Darcy's Law and click on the Wiki link. I'm developing a model that extrapolates how fast valid information flows thru a porous brain.
DD,
Entirely dependent on the number of moles of ETOH in said brain. Assuming human brain of course. What's "valid" to other species is simply a matter of conjecture. What serves as "information" to a Pacific giant salamander in 50F water probably has no relevance to any but a certain few here on the 'fire.
Brobdignagian undertaking however you want to look at it. Best wishes, however, I think your other project (s?) may serve a higher purpose.
Geno
PS this is dedicated to all the stupid people like me:
PPS I thought I was wrong once...........but I was mistaken.........................do I get a vote now?
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Nearly 10 pages, an' nobody is stickin' up for my old pal kaywoody!? Bob whips out answers to questions most of ain't smart enough to ask.
Bob is more what I’d call brilliant.
Yep...he is a whole universe above and away from the rest of us. Brilliant!
I nominated Bob. See my post on the previous page.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
I saw my name was mentioned early on. While I appreciate the appreciation, I must say I would not pick myself.
What I will say is that the best way to look for the most intelligent fellow is to not look directly for him or at him.
Let me begin by saying this is one of the most intelligent groups I have ever run into. Even the self-professed mental midgets on here have fairly subtle thoughts and a high degree of literacy. Y'all try to sell yourselves short, but that is probably a defense mechanism.
Mensa? Look, Mensa is open to the top 2% scorers on standard IQ tests. Folks have a tendency to only associate with people closely matching their own IQ levels. I'd say there is a fairly large number of Mensa candidates on here. They're lurking in the shadows. I happen to know the fellow who is in charge of recruitment for the local Mensa chapter. I also knew his previous 3 predecessors. It's a damn hard job. Most smart people don't want to be associated with a group that touts intelligence.
I was talking with a psychology professor from UC many years ago. We were discussing intelligence and how it manifests itself in the real world. At the time, we both knew Neil Armstrong, Warren Bennis, and a bunch of other illuminati and glitterati on campus. Tom said that the really super-intelligent folks are guys you would never guess. This is because they never stick out. They have an ability to master all the social requirements and throw this off into a separate mental process. Meanwhile, they're thinking about what really concerns them and that may be one great issue in depth or a variety of things. You only know they're super-intelligent by their output. Isaac Asimov kept a number of electric typewriters around his apartment. He'd run 10 projects at the same time, and wander around adding to stuff as he felt like it. Whereas Mensans, the top 2%, struggle with their intelligence and their social adjustments, most of the top .5% do not have these problems.
There's this myth going around that paints the intelligent as Lex Luthor types-- evil geniuses. Another psychologist buddy of mine used to treat folks up at the local state correctional institute. He said the places like that were filled with rebellious, stupid people. Smart people can see the consequences of their actions. Stupid people can't figure in how they might get caught. Life is a huge surprise. Extending that, most really smart people can think out the consequences of their actions. Occasionally you get a psychopath, but most smart psychopaths know enough to keep from showing up on the collective moral radar.
Picking the smartest guy on here is going to be a fool's errand. The guy who is really the smartest is not going to show himself.
One other observation: smart people seem to like to make things go boom. My introduction to firearms came from 5 guys. 4 of them were Mensa members. 1 joined later. One of these guys was a retired gun editor. Another had been part of one of those genius battalions they formed in WWII. A third had been an armorer in the Marines. Another had a degree in pyrotechnic engineering. Another was the only amateur member of the Ohio Pyrotechnics Guild. The current local Mensa recruitment chairman is currently working up a cast bullet load for 458 SOCOM. The fellow that was the local testing proctor for Mensa for a generation has a gun collection y'all would give a testicle to own. All of these fellows would fit in well at the Campfire. Some actually are members, but they lurk and don't post.
I had to run before, and didn't get to finish my thoughts. Most of these are random.
When I was at the University of Cincinnati, I had an opportunity to see a stat worth sharing. Of all the undergraduates at UC, the majors with the highest IQ's were the musicians and the accountants. Nobody else came close.
In general, espousing Communist or Socialist beliefs is a contra-indicator for high-intelligence. Most Mensans group somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan, except for their political hierarchy. Quite a few of the politicos are low-rent over-achievers and try to use Mensa as a career replacement. That's where you find most of the Socialists. Figures.
Contrary to a lot of popular concepts, there are a lot of religious folks among the highly intelligent. One of the few fellows I knew that worked on the Manhattan Project, and the only one I would count as a friend was a pious practicing Jew from Brooklyn. The smartest fellow I could point to on this august forum was Ken Howell-- nuff said. Atheism is a contra-indicator of intelligence.
In case you're wondering who I'd vote for, it would be Ken Howell. He's been dead for a while, but he's still impressing me.
Accountants are left brained, IQ tests favor left brain types. There is a correlation between music and math, although a lot of musicians are more right brained.
Right brained intelligence is much harder to measure.
IQ testing misses a lot of what constitutes a successful individual.
I had to run before, and didn't get to finish my thoughts. Most of these are random.
When I was at the University of Cincinnati, I had an opportunity to see a stat worth sharing. Of all the undergraduates at UC, the majors with the highest IQ's were the musicians and the accountants. Nobody else came close.
In general, espousing Communist or Socialist beliefs is a contra-indicator for high-intelligence. Most Mensans group somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan, except for their political hierarchy. Quite a few of the politicos are low-rent over-achievers and try to use Mensa as a career replacement. That's where you find most of the Socialists. Figures.
Contrary to a lot of popular concepts, there are a lot of religious folks among the highly intelligent. One of the few fellows I knew that worked on the Manhattan Project, and the only one I would count as a friend was a pious practicing Jew from Brooklyn. The smartest fellow I could point to on this august forum was Ken Howell-- nuff said. Atheism is a contra-indicator of intelligence.
In case you're wondering who I'd vote for, it would be Ken Howell. He's been dead for a while, but he's still impressing me.
Makes sense. Those who choose heaven over hell ......
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
I had to run before, and didn't get to finish my thoughts. Most of these are random.
When I was at the University of Cincinnati, I had an opportunity to see a stat worth sharing. Of all the undergraduates at UC, the majors with the highest IQ's were the musicians and the accountants. Nobody else came close.
In general, espousing Communist or Socialist beliefs is a contra-indicator for high-intelligence. Most Mensans group somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan, except for their political hierarchy. Quite a few of the politicos are low-rent over-achievers and try to use Mensa as a career replacement. That's where you find most of the Socialists. Figures.
Contrary to a lot of popular concepts, there are a lot of religious folks among the highly intelligent. One of the few fellows I knew that worked on the Manhattan Project, and the only one I would count as a friend was a pious practicing Jew from Brooklyn. The smartest fellow I could point to on this august forum was Ken Howell-- nuff said. Atheism is a contra-indicator of intelligence.
In case you're wondering who I'd vote for, it would be Ken Howell. He's been dead for a while, but he's still impressing me.
Shaman....The wife said to tell you [N=1] is not a valid argument. You’re wrong! 😎
Curiosity Killed the Cat & The Prairie Dog “Molon Labe”
There are some very smart cookies in these forums and a lot of varied experience.
The first time I paid attention to Etoh's comments, I thought he was just jerking chains, but after carefully reading the things he said I realized that the man speaks MATH. I admire people who master mathematics. That said, I'd have to add that intelligence manifests in lots of different ways. I think it's really impossible to measure objectively.
My big question is, does what you KNOW make you intelligent, or how you think? The more I learn, the more I realize that there's damned little that I truly know, but many things I strongly believe...and there's a vast gulf between those two sets.
Don't be the darkness.
America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.
There are some very smart cookies in these forums and a lot of varied experience.
The first time I paid attention to Etoh's comments, I thought he was just jerking chains, but after carefully reading the things he said I realized that the man speaks MATH. I admire people who master mathematics. That said, I'd have to add that intelligence manifests in lots of different ways. I think it's really impossible to measure objectively.
My big question is, does what you KNOW make you intelligent, or how you think? The more I learn, the more I realize that there's damned little that I truly know, but many things I strongly believe...and there's a vast gulf between those two sets.
Wisdom comes from knowing the true depth of ones ignorance.
Remember why, specifically, the Bill of Rights was written...remember its purpose. It was written to limit the power of government over the individual.
There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.
I've always understood intelligence to be the measure of how fast you were able to learn/understand things. Whether it be concepts or simple practicalities.
