Super World Class Smart - Page 8

mason55 · #71 10-12-2005, 04:31 PM

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I'm the world's best Dr. Mario player. No foolin.

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You're pretty good at sliming people too

partygirluk · #72 10-12-2005, 04:36 PM

Don't know about World Class, but I am certainly exceptional at the numbers game from a Tv shot over here called Countdown. I get the correct answer more regularly than the in studio pro, and am better than someone who got to the final when he was 10 (he was 21 when I met him).

Dominic · #73 10-12-2005, 04:45 PM

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OOT screenwriting contest, anyone?

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I'm game.

mmcd · #74 10-12-2005, 04:57 PM

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OK, I'm excluding savants and people of that sort. Put it this way.

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Oh, so you're excluding the Super World Class people???

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I'm excluding those who aren't otherwise "normal." Many of those who have the entire atlas memorized probably can't function well socially, etc.

Also, what is "world class" here, anyway? Top 1%? Top 0.01%?

Even including savants with eidetic memories, I'm willing to assert that I'm pretty close to the top.

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i think top 2 % qualifies

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No way, depending on the number of people involved in the endeavor in question, I think the rank "world class" would constitute somewhere between 10 and 200 people.

If somone is better than 98/100 people at some activity that doesn't mean they're world class, it merely means they're good.

threeonefour · #75 10-12-2005, 04:58 PM

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OK, I'm excluding savants and people of that sort. Put it this way.

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Oh, so you're excluding the Super World Class people???

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I'm excluding those who aren't otherwise "normal." Many of those who have the entire atlas memorized probably can't function well socially, etc.

Also, what is "world class" here, anyway? Top 1%? Top 0.01%?

Even including savants with eidetic memories, I'm willing to assert that I'm pretty close to the top.

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i think top 2 % qualifies

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top 2% isn't even close. if you are in mensa are you considered world class smart? no way.

there are 6 billion people in the world, i think you would have to be in the top 500 in some field to be considered world class. that would come out to the top .0000008333% or so.

if you did 2% then where would be 60 million world class doctors/lawyers/basketball players in the world.

goofball · #76 10-12-2005, 05:09 PM

I believe he meant top 2% in the field which makes it a little more reasonable. Still not exclusive enough though imo.

CardSharpCook · #77 10-12-2005, 05:11 PM

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OK, I'm excluding savants and people of that sort. Put it this way.

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Oh, so you're excluding the Super World Class people???

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I'm excluding those who aren't otherwise "normal." Many of those who have the entire atlas memorized probably can't function well socially, etc.

Also, what is "world class" here, anyway? Top 1%? Top 0.01%?

Even including savants with eidetic memories, I'm willing to assert that I'm pretty close to the top.

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i think top 2 % qualifies

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top 2% isn't even close. if you are in mensa are you considered world class smart? no way.

there are 6 billion people in the world, i think you would have to be in the top 500 in some field to be considered world class. that would come out to the top .0000008333% or so.

if you did 2% then where would be 60 million world class doctors/lawyers/basketball players in the world.

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because there are 3 Billion Doctors? There are some categories in which "world class" includes every living person like world class tall guy, or world class smart guy. But there are many other categories that are specific to a field. I'd say that the field of Baseball players includes College, minor league and Major league. In this case, world class would be all major leaguers. If that doesn't sit with you, than world-class means even more. World class means the top 2% of the top 2% and world class baseball players are now (potential) Hall of Famers - nothing less.

So does world class mean top 2% in a field or top .02%?

CardSharpCook · #78 10-12-2005, 05:12 PM

BTW, I vote for JakeTheBake and Jason_T as being the only two world class OOTiots. If they want to put that on their resume, they can.

mason55 · #79 10-12-2005, 05:13 PM

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World class means the top 2% of the top 2% and world class baseball players are now (potential) Hall of Famers - nothing less.

So does world class mean top 2% in a field or top .02%?

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2% of 2% is .04%. Obviously you're not world class math [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

CardSharpCook · #80 10-12-2005, 05:18 PM

Hey Jackazz! Thanks!