I appreciate all the inbox questions. As you all know I cannot reply to each and everyone personally due to time constraint. One of the recurring question is: Is Shamim Chowdhury a genius? How come he was not included in your list?
Answer: Well yes! Certainly he is a genius. Based on the parsing of sentences, his vernacular and strong wordplay with vocabulary, plus overall interpersonal or communication skills puts him in the same lot as Walter Cronkite. However, we cannot accept unverified anecdotes such as he built a toy radio by age of 13 and hosted his own talk show as evidence. So for the time being although his estimated IQ along with Athar tends to be around 230 area, we need factual evidences.
Another strong contender is Rubel. Although his IQ hovers around 160s due to lack of evidence of his accomplishments BEFORE age of 17 we cannot add him in the list.
Also please do take note nothing in this thread says about degeneration of IQs. Ashraful may have negative Flynn-effect, whatever the hell that mouthful means.
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