Ten Smartest Non Poker Players

[Bataglin]

He has probably talked with them (all). He didn't bother to travel very far, though.

If we assume there is a place outside our western pit (we'll call it...uhm...[western pit + outside place =] "the world"), and that every genius born are randomly distributed throughout this world, then this list is obviously flawed.

Do you see why?

I'll let others elaborate.

[ilya]

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4. Jello Biafra

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Are you serious? This should read Lux Interior and its not close.

Tuco.

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Eh, I like Jello. But ok, Lux can split #4 with him.

[Boris]

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I suppose Michael Jordan could have become a big league slugger, or top PGA player with only a little practice...

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Jordan almost certainly would have been, at a minimum, an above average baseball player if he had devoted himself to the sport at a young age. I'm not sure about the golf but given his work ethic and size there is a very good chance he could have made the PGA tour.

[jakuda]

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Glenn Gould - he could talk articulately while playing complex Bach fugues; multitasking abilities that put many "I play this many tables at a time" poker players to shame.
Frank

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Sorry, while I acknowledge that Gould was one a great Bach interpreter on the piano, pianists practice enough that when performing a piece the "memory" in their fingers can continue on their own without actively thinking about what notes are next. Those classically trained at the piano know what I am talking about when you have a recital or performance and right before you can't for the life of you remember the opening notes to play. But when you get up there and sit down at the piano, it all goes well b/c your fingers do.

So talking articulately while playing isn't that great a feat.

[Daliman]

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4. Jello Biafra

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Are you serious? This should read Lux Interior and its not close.

Tuco.

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Eh, I like Jello. But ok, Lux can split #4 with him.

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Enough to give Jackie Kennedy Cramps......

[Jim T]

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He has probably talked with them (all). He didn't bother to travel very far, though.

If we assume there is a place outside our western pit (we'll call it...uhm...[western pit + outside place =] "the world"), and that every genius born are randomly distributed throughout this world, then this list is obviously flawed.

Do you see why?

I'll let others elaborate.

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You are assuming that genius is purely genetic. I have to strongly disagree.

[jwvdcw]

I didn't read all the replies, so forgive me if this has been said...but I think Descartes belongs on the list.

[DMBFan23]

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He required no experiments, and there was nothing to slow him down. Name someone else that won a Nobel Prize simply by thinking.

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didn't he win the nobel prize not for relativity but for discovering the photoelectric effect, for which there were experiments?

[Softrock]

What about Freud? While he may have gotten off on some unusual tangents he introduced a concept that we now all take forgranted - the unconscious. His ability to to think "outside the box" and the thought he stimulated had a major impact on the world.

[Vince Lepore]

From my IQ post:

120 to 125 Ph. D.'s. Manager, professor, accountant
125 to 132 Any Ph. D. at 3rd-Tier Schools Attorney, editor, executive
132 to 137 No limitations. Eminent professor, editor
137 to 150 No limitations. Leading math, physics professor
150 to 160 No limitations Lincoln, Copernicus, Jefferson
160 to 174 No limitations Descartes, Einstein, Spinoza
174 to 200 No limitations Shakespeare, Goethe, Newton

Notice that Shakespeare was much smater than Einstein. I don't recall anyone ever claiming that Shakespeare could do math. Tell me Sklansky do you think before you make these frivolous statements.

Vince