Agreed, but his deductive reasoning skills are sub-par. In the who's on first question he knows the first baseman's name is Who, and he knows it can't be I don't know. In addition the serviceman tells him he chose incorrectly. Making it all but certain the answer is What. Why would he possibly use another ask?
Um...Once "I don't know" was eliminated as a possible answer in the Abbot and Costello question, the answer was simple. The sketch is called "Who's on first". "Who" and "What" were the only remaining answer to the name of the second baseman. We know the first baseman is "Who". What's the answer? This guy has an IQ of 200? LMFAO.
@@hughtub These shows are about logical thinking, you have to use the process of elimination and put together context and prior knowledge... this limits the person answering the question tremendously but these shows are about the ability to adapt to limited knowledge using what you have available to you... you could use body markers to read a gameshow host who knows the answer for example... a lot factors in
They get the smartest dude on, knowing he doesn't spend time watching tv and ask a bunch of questions on movies, tv and infomercials. What a test of intelligence.
@Ishkabibble Reading comprehension. I said that the point of the questions is to make it so even the smartest people could get them wrong. More to your point, Einstein would get them wrong, too.
@Ishkabibble Are they supposed to give him questions he will have the answer to? Why treat only him that way and not everyone else when the questions are always of that nature? Why should he get special treatment?
not only that, he is the only scientist who believes in God, not only believes blindly, but he proved it by using math and physics, He is the TRUE scientist if u ask me, science itself proves God and all this fake ass scientists trying to fool people by saying God is not real and universe came from big bang
he was kind of stupid by using up the mob poll. The military guy said he was familiar with the comedy routine and just hit the wrong button, then the second guy eliminated the third option, because one guy was right and one was wrong. So if the military guy was telling the truth, then the answer was "what". No need to poll the mob.
there are different type of intelligence, one of them is information retention. Some people only have to see it once to retain that information for the rest of their lives
Leopard0di I wouldnt consider that a form of intelligence, more like a skill of some sort. Intelligence in my opinion is understanding logical concepts.
I like the way he used the help. The final 2 gave him a automatic 150000 bump.The only intelligence test i saw here was how he approached the answers with the tools he had available.
Nice spot! We knew nothing about the game (had never heard of it) and were pretty pop clueless at this point. All we could do was strategized about how to use the helps. The rest was out of his hands. Neither of us knew the last question. All's well that end's well.
the name of the routine is "who's on first". if "who" is on first, then only "what" could be on second (given the choices). was a little disappointed that he didnt work it out this way.
Well, since it's a game show I would argue that it's not a rhetorical question. It's just the simplest way to ask the question. I see what you mean though, I also think that he should have known.
If you don't know of the sketch, it can be really confusing. Because if it goes like so... Bob- "Who's on first" Jacob- "No Who's on second, What's on first" Bob- "I don't know who's on second I just asked you" Jacob- "I know Who's on second I just told you, and I Don't Know's on third." or something like that. The title of the joke could just be the question not the answer to who's on first.
That moment when you realize how many people confuse knowledge base/exposure to information with raw intellectual acumen and ability. You can be the smartest guy in the world, but if you've never learned something, it's obvious you'll likely know nothing about it, excluding the facility of inductive, deductive, rational thinking, and other forms of extrapolating information from one's current knowledge base.
Think about it, if they asked super intelligent questions that would defeat the point of the game. Ask them every day joe schmoe questions that you dont think theyd know and it makes it more challenging.
Smart move. The highest possible reward is 4x what he got, but if 3 people got that question wrong, and that trend continued, he would have to pass another 7 rounds. Assuming he has a 75% chance of getting each question right, his odds of successfully answering another 7 questions would only be about 13.3%, less than 1 in 7. So he has about a 1 in 7 chance to quadruple his money, not great odds thereafter by any stretch of the imagination and that's assuming he has a 75% chance of correctly answering more and more difficult and obscure questions.
So obvious that what was the correct answer, especially, if he had been listening, after the first lifeline. Anyway, the guy was disciplined enough to take the money after 250,000. Mad respect for that.
Alkalite right? First guy said he was sure of what the answer was and chose the wrong answer.. it was then narrowed to two options by the second guy... don’t know why he wouldn’t have trusted the first guy :/
Without using the last lifeline, he wouldn't get a sneak peek of the next question. You only get the sneak peek once your lifelines are out. He was right to use both.
Chris Langan I greet you from Azerbaijan ) I read your biography from Malcolm Gladwell's book 'Outliers'. You know, I want to tell you not to feel sorry for what happened to you. it is our test by the Lord of the Worlds. You can be the ideal Father, raising your children by focusing on your cooperation with them. we are proud of you ) your Azerbaijani audience with love Telman )
Yeah, but he's also a great example of how intelligence doesn't necessarily equal knowledge. I'm sure if we somehow revived all the world's great scientists, philosophers, inventors, etc., they would all (or at least almost all) technically be "dumber" than Langan, yet they clearly achieved far more than Langan due to numerous factors (exceptional intelligence even if not quite at Langan's level, discipline, access to good teachers and/or teaching materials, specializing in specific fields of study, maybe just luck at figuring something out, etc.)
Einstein never did an IQ test, so you're wrong. This guy never did official and approved tests for intelligence so that doesn't mean shit. He is not that smart lol
Or he is a con man that has duped a bunch of idiots on the internet into believing he is the smartest man on earth by creating a docu-series about himself and a self-proclained high IQ score from the internet without providing a shred of evidence, then write a paper on the theory of the universe which proclaims intelligent design that he submitted not to a scientific consensus but to creationist coloumn. Then he spouts on about white genocide and a bunch of dumb conspiracy theories that anyone with a rationale brain wouldn't consider. Well I give him credit, he is smart enough to dupe thousands of people on the internet into thinking he is smart, that's for sure.
The thing is that the Abbot and Costello question basically informs and establishes that who is (already) on first, so it should seem not so likely that who is also on second, since who is on first already.
I like Chris because he just seems so confident in himself and his own intelligence. He has no need to brag because he really is that smart. Oh, and he doesn't stay inside all day like a lot of other academics.
5:35 When Mark said he chose the wrong answer by accident ("who"), the other guy said he chose ("what"). The host said that one of those guys was right. It would have made more sense to just go for what, so that wasn't a very intelligent choice.
I thought the 1st mob member was Implying that they thought "I don't know" was the correct answer answer by explaining that picking what was an accident and that the remaining options were B and C
I actually thought that it might have been Midnight Cowboy initially, but later realized that it had it's rating changed to X (or adult only). I knew then that the answer was Showgirls.
And wheres the actual evidence of him scoring a high IQ? All I see is self promotion docu-series so he can sell his pseudoscientific theory of intelligent design. I mean he is smart enough to con a bunch of idiots on the internet into thinking he is smart, that's for sure.
I actually knew all three answers by chance (Pocket Fisherman, WHAT, Showgirls - even without the multiple choices displayed), but that dude is waaaay smarter than I am. If you watch any interview with him and listen, he thinks BIG. He's the kind of guy you'd want to spend a little time chatting with each week - hearing what he's up to and bouncing various ideas off of him.
That's the thing showgirls should be the answer but last tango in Paris grossed more than showgirls. But show girls did 20 million so it makes me wonder how that answer so was wired this way.
Chris has the ability to learn things and interpret ideas on an extraordinary level. However, someone with a photographic memory who for some reason studies all the worlds knowledge would perform better on these types of shows.
The first guy said he *knew* Abbott and Costello - but pressed the wrong button. Meaning the second guy's answer *had* to be correct. If he's so brilliant, why did he then use _another_ lifeline?
Because by using his final help, he was entitled to a “sneak peek” at the next question. Had he answered without using the final help, then he would’ve had to decide whether to keep going (and risk $250,000 in the process) before seeing the next question. My guess is that he knew the answer after talking to the two Mob members, but he intentionally burned his last help for the reason I just explained.
We definitely play up this “smartest man” stuff. We think of intelligence so linearly and absolutely. Most people don’t even know what it means to have a high IQ.
Ik this is a year old comment but who said this is a smart question and either way every question is smart in a way so i don't know what your talking about
@@raymondmadrid Chris Langan was given trivia questions about pop culture. It would have been more interesting (at least in terms of his intelligence) to be given logical problems to solve.
Pretty good coincidence that 20 out of 23 voted B, and that he only needed 3 more eliminations to get 250k. I'm not saying it's fishy, don't take it the wrong way, but it's super lucky.
punkin71 it's a bullshit theory that uses complex language to cover for a lack of substance. Read CTMU to see how much of a badly written mumbo jumbo it really is
He used the first life line and beacuse he got two different CONFIDENT answers from both men, he used the second life line to see which one was correct since they both got two different answers. Then he went with the majority of the mob based off of who was correct from the first life line. This dude IS a genius.
no he wasted a life line for no reason! the first lifeline he took, the rules stated 1 person was right and one was wrong...the first guy said he knows the subject and choose A and when asked why he stated "because i pressed the wrong button on accident".Then the second guy was asked and chose B, so they actually gave him the answer for free..not only this but the answer is pretty much given in the question itself, so its very disappointing he couldn't deduct the correct answer from either of these
But there was no way to know 100% for sure if that person was 100% correct in KNOWING that he pressed the wrong one purposely. Chris would rather not gamble $100,000 on a person he doesn't even know personally so he chose to use a lifeline rather than possibly choose the wrong answer based off of what the guy said (even though it turned out to be true).
It was narrowed down to only Who and What. The question itself said "Who is on first." WHO IS ON FIRST. Is Who on second? Well let's see... WHO IS ON FIRST, SO I'M GUESSING WHO IS NOT ON SECOND! No, he didn't play like a genius. It really doesn't take a genius to deduce that Who is not the answer. In fact... this is a comedy routine that he's heard, everybody has heard, everybody remembers. Everybody who has heard this routine even once should remember with impeccable clarity that each baseman has a unique name and that Who is the baseman on first.
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