My old Boulder High School friend Rick Rosner is deeply weird and very funny. I also knew he was smart — he liked to talk about quantum physics during lunch in the school cafeteria– but I had no idea he was as smart as this. Here's Madeleine Scinto's profile of Rosner in The Daily.
If you believe his IQ scores, the smartest person in the world just might be a 51-year-old former male stripper from Southern California who writes jokes for a famous late-night TV host and speaks openly of his addiction to online porn.
Rick Rosner describes himself as a cognitive freak of nature and has a raft of astronomically high IQ test results to buttress his case, including certified results in the 190s — the rarified territory of historic geniuses like Isaac Newton and Leonardo da Vinci. The Giga Society, a club for the handful of individuals who have posted one-in-a-billion scores on IQ tests, counts him as a member.
"I've probably outscored anyone who's ever taken these types of tests on at least 10 of them," Rosner told The Daily. "And right now I have a score that places me in the one-out-of-2 billion people range."
But sometimes being one in 2 billion isn't quite special enough — especially for a guy who is prone to strange obsessions and who welcomes media attention. After stepping away from intelligence tests for more than a decade, Rosner has come back to them as part of a middle-aged mission to establish himself as cleverest of the clever.
"I'll challenge anyone to a face-off," said Rosner.
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