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?
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.
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
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.
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 )
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
At a first glace it looks like he made a miscalcuation by opting to use his last help when it should have been obvious that the answer was 'What' after having used the first help. The rules stated that one contestant got it right and one got it wrong. First contestant says he absolutely knew the answer but pressed the wrong button, which was 'Who'. That means the first contestant absolutely thinks he knows the answer is 'What' The second contestant said he took a guess and chose 'What'. It only makes sense that first contestant chose the wrong answer and second chose the right one. Here is where it gets interesting: he got suspicious when the host knew beforehand that the contestant had pressed the wrong button, by asking 'and you chose that answer because?' They pulled a trickery to outsmart the genius.
The host always asks the Mob member why they chose their answer. The Mob member must be honest regarding the answer they chose, but they do not need to be honest about WHY they chose their answer.
The abbott and costello routine, the first guy said he IS familiar with it but hit the wrong button, the second guy said "what" is the second baseman's name. The answer lies within the question. Similar to some IQ tests.
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.
There's a big difference between intelligence (smart) and knowledge...having a good memory for many kinds of things doesn't mean that you're very clever. Memory is only a part of intelligence.
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.
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.
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.
Intelligent people still have a wierd way of eliminating answers regardless of it being pop culture and them knowing nothing about it. All by deep thought
Anybody Noname, that is one of the dumbest comments I've ever read. Did you even understand what you wrote?? Like me momma says, "stupid is as stupid does." And you are stupid.
Anyone realize buddy said he knew Abbott and Costello very well and he selected “A” by accident.. the other guy said he just guessed “B” essentially. Would “B” not be the clear answer after that?
He really didn’t need to poll the mob, the fact that military dude said he was very familiar with the show and accidentally hit the wrong button and the second guy said he hit what should have really shown him “what” was the answer. Oh well, he still got 250k.
Yet there's no evidence of him ever scoring a high IQ. Everything is self proclaimed. If I told you I could fly and I made a docu-series about it, doesn't mean I can actually fly.
I find it telling that Chris Langan, the smartest idiot on the planet, would remember a Ronco product over a classic comedy routine. That prick just insulted half the remaining people based on their age before *immediately* not knowing the answer himself. And then he stupidly wastes another of his "helps" after "I don't know" was removed as a possibility. It's not going to be Who on second if Who is on first. I get that this is trivia, relying on rote memory rather than intellect, but just this clip showed stupidity on his part. The only smart thing he did was to take the 250k and run.
But the smartest man in America right now IS running the government. The only trouble is he's so smart that to most people, he has exceeded the maximum and wrapped around and looks like an idiot again.
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Who came here after reading the book “Outliers” by Malcom Gladwell?
yolideable haha ı was reading just 10 min ago and ı am here 😂
Same
Me lol, although I am not yet finished
Same!
Me!!
Intelligence and knowledge of pop culture trivia are two different things..
dlogic22 Wisdom of Bible
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?
Brock cuz he knew he was done
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.
dlogic22 yes and no....the problem is he does not have the tools to use his base intelligence
They knew this guy was smart, and then took advantage by not asking intelligence based questions, but rather pop culture based questions
??? This is not an iq show, it’s a pop culture show 😂
Exactly. Jeopardy has gone down the same path somewhat. "Pink's most recent album has grossed how many million record sales?" WHO THE FUCK CARES
@@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
@@stayed9694 That’s true.
If you watch his interview, he talks about shows like this and why they are not truly a measurement of IQ.
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.
thinking about the a answers shown here my inteligence would be able to answer them without knowing the actual answers.
"Congratulations! you just landed at 100,000 dollars!"
Langan: "wow."
honestly the calmest wow ever
He says he doesn’t really care about money so I didnt really expect much
Recognizing the fact that he didn’t know and humbly walked away with the money proves he is very smart
Do you have full
Saget: "We have a super smart dude on tonight, let's ask him pop culture questions." Cultural assrape.
It annoyed the hell out of me.
Lmao!!!
That's kind of the point. You can get it wrong no matter how smart you are.
@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?
The maximum quality of this video is only 40 away from his IQ
that made me laugh :D
I only wish that my iq was equal to the lowest quality of this video
LMAO
I wish my IQ was high enough to get this joke
Mr. Sandman i once scored 143 on some test so IM ALMOST THERE
outliers brought me here
Nouman Haider me to right now ha ha
reading it right now
Haa! Same lol. Mathew Gladwell is awesome
Me too lmao
Opening for chapter 3 right here!
"pee is stored in the balls."
Dostoyevsky - 1994
He logically just thought that "i'm gonna be able to make much better use of this money than anyone anyway" probably
this guy is actually the man with an IQ of 200. So yea, he's pretty smart lmfao
Jannik Raeder Well no shit he has an IQ of 200, don't need a fuktard to add comment
But you ARE stupid for being one of the shitiest spellers I've ever witnessed... learn how to spell, then come back to UA-cam, ya fucktard.
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.
And the next question is..."in calculus..." and all 100 people are out.
haahahahaha xD
😂
These question aren't intelligence based whatsoever.
no but it's smart to take the money and run
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.
iM retardd ad i no thT
firendable The Abbott and Costello question could be worked out
Anyone else here from reading Outliers by Malcom Gladwell?
read it
Mark Brown its bullshit.
Outliers brought me here
Yep
😂😂😂it brought me here
Smartest man in the world.
Doesn't own a TV
It all makes sense ...
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
@@shakoimnadze7604 source?
@@Alexander-wk9wp His theory
@@Alexander-wk9wp Dont remember the name, look it up chris langan theory
@@Alexander-wk9wp his own theory the CTMU
God dammit, Outliers: Chapter 3.
I'm reading the book :D
Haha same
I thought I was the only one who searched this up
That's what brought me here, too lmao
me tooooo (estoy tambien)
If real people like this real man were in leadership. There would be no trouble
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.
3 blonde = 1 person
Art N Life One person, not people.
lol proves theyre stupid
@shadow anon clearly you can tell i dont speak english so i dont give a shit bout your language
Oh yeah didn't noticed that holy fucl they're genius!!😂😂
LOL
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.
The question itself didn't give the answer at all. "What is the second baseman's name?" is a question, not a statement.
to be fair though, a rhetorical question is actually a statement at its core.
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.
Abbot and costello for an intelligence question...ooook, whatever...
Thats the real world ron swanson
I'm guessing he loves bacon wrapped shrimp.
he might not know how much money he has, but he knows how many pounds of money he has
He's cooler
@@plumbersteve What are you talking about, he's not British
Very smart. There's a difference between intelligence and niche knowledge
And your IQ must be -190 as you have no reading comprehension and your sentence is shit.
@@Doppe1ganger LOL
He is the smartest man in America. HE actually took the money
Actually, it was too far away from double rewards($500,000).
Are we just going to ignore that burn at 6:12
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.
Intelligence is the base of knowledge
Well said!
Anybody here from "The Outliers"?
I sincerely hope Chris is enjoying his golden years with his wife and land. It’s always a pleasure to watch him speak. He’s coolX
except the fact that he is a racist nut
Outliers brought me here & i was curious to listen to how he spoke, i heard him say ‘uh’ twice i think hehe
Be careful not to read too much into what an intelligent person does, behavior varies a lot within the same IQ range
Being on television would also make you very nervous.
@@MetroidPurples i know but i only said that bc in the book it mentioned he never said those things i just thought it was funny
@@mariaf740 Right, but think about being on television for the first time and you're super nervous. All thought is out of the window
I laugh at the 40-year-old virgin now but chances are I'll end up like him too
He's been married for quite a while
@@seymoronion8371 So even his wife won't sleep with him? Cold world.
Pretty sure that being intelligent and knowing a lot of stuff are two different things.
They are not two different things. They are highly correlated. You should have said, "irrelevant stuff" to be right.
You know this guy is a genius because he took the money
that guys face when he said " you wish you went second base"
something unfunny about putting someone down.
i mean that whole scene was scripted
These shows just test random trivia/knowledge. Chris is just a very smart problem solver and thinker, not necessarily an encyclopedia.
these are not questions of intellegence...
harooni22 what in the actual fuck does that mean??
lmfao
shimmer, In my opinion, every question is of intelligence
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.
Rip peep😢
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.
MOB means money over bitches?
This guy is incredibly intelligent, he has an iq of over 200 at the moment.
who came here from outliers
Faraaz Iqbal the book?
🙋♂️
moi
And after it all - the smartest thing he could say at the end was
"I don't know"
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 )
He's the most normal acting genius iv ever seen speak
Funny how the ad is right at the commerical lol
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 :/
That's why he's so smart. To us it looks lucky but to him he planned it all out this way
@@timmyrobinson1589 Because $250,000 was at stake lol
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.
@@tiffz26no lo había pensado así, tenés mucha razón.
Ask him some riddles.. his IQ can work then. General knowledge is not IQ
did anyone else know the answer was showgirls?
That was my instant response. IMDB confirmed it was right.
Horkslair thank god someone else knew it
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.
Yep! I was hoping I would find this in the comments
Isn't it now "Deadpool"
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
Too much clapping...there's literally a round of applause at the end of every sentence 😠
🤭🤭👌😂
Fun fact: this guy is smarter than einstein
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.
When the smartest guy in the world's on your game show, ask them questions.
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.
chris`s voice sounds menacing as fuck xd
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.
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
tWin69 I agree but I would chalk it up to nerves.
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.
No wonder his estimated iq is 200
I've seen him on UA-cam. He has an IQ of 200. He's one of the smartest people on earth.
You believe everything you see on the Internet?
iq is not very accurate and really complete measure of overall intelligence
@@draganivanisevic5182 It’s closets thing we have to an overall measure of intelligence.
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.
6:13 is savage!
For real, my man fucking "Danny Tanner" lmao
Game shows don’t measure intelligence they measure knowledge of random facts
This is Chris Langan's game on the American game show "1 vs 100" & it's from a January 2008 episode (in the original NBC version). 🇺🇲 🇺🇲
He chose the money, he is smart.
I never doubted Ron Swanson for a second
If he had passed on that 250k we would have had to question his status.
The only person in this video who truly contributed positively to this world is Bob Saget.
Remember, everywhere you look there's a heart.
Who's on first? and What is the name of the guy on second? He was given the answer on that one.
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.
I swear Ron Swanson's character was meant to mimic this man.
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.
such as kim peek
And Chris has a photographic memory
Chris doesn't have a TV,....proof of a high IQ!
I have an iq of 130+ i watch tv all day long since i was a kid lol
I was tested at 133 but I'm kind of retarded
@@poggersplayer69 im tested at an iq of 337 i dont even have a house, a tv, a computer, or internet
@@warpromo6636 Inspiring.
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Gracias !!
At a first glace it looks like he made a miscalcuation by opting to use his last help when it should have been obvious that the answer was 'What' after having used the first help.
The rules stated that one contestant got it right and one got it wrong.
First contestant says he absolutely knew the answer but pressed the wrong button, which was 'Who'. That means the first contestant absolutely thinks he knows the answer is 'What'
The second contestant said he took a guess and chose 'What'.
It only makes sense that first contestant chose the wrong answer and second chose the right one.
Here is where it gets interesting: he got suspicious when the host knew beforehand that the contestant had pressed the wrong button, by asking 'and you chose that answer because?'
They pulled a trickery to outsmart the genius.
The host always asks the Mob member why they chose their answer. The Mob member must be honest regarding the answer they chose, but they do not need to be honest about WHY they chose their answer.
Shows how smart he is! You dont chance 250k!
Chris has literally said himself that Trivia of the world is idiotic.
The abbott and costello routine, the first guy said he IS familiar with it but hit the wrong button, the second guy said "what" is the second baseman's name. The answer lies within the question. Similar to some IQ tests.
This trend of excessive delay before announcing something...
MUST END NOW!!!
I thought it was awesome that for the pocket fisherman question, I had the exact same thought process as him.
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 he wasn’t sure if the guy that said he knew the sketch actually did know it. Sometimes you think you know something but you get it wrong.
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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.
Chris is the smartest man on this planet. He goes on game shows like this to make money.
There's a big difference between intelligence (smart) and knowledge...having a good memory for many kinds of things doesn't mean that you're very clever. Memory is only a part of intelligence.
He was smart enough to take the money....
RIP Bob Sagat
i've never actually watched all of the who's on first base skit. thank you for inspiring me to watch that gem of comedy!
"...why you never heard of the world's smartest man."
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.
Agree.
tell me more about that, im curious
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.
Anyone here after reading Outliers
I'm reading it rn lmao
Me coming here after reading "Outliers" by Malcom Gladwell 😂
You know this man gives 0 shits about money right? Look at his face.
Nelson Matos Because he knows the truth and he doesn't need money to be happy
These are just some random general knowledge questions it has nothing to do with being smart
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.
Intelligent people still have a wierd way of eliminating answers regardless of it being pop culture and them knowing nothing about it. All by deep thought
This would make a good news letter "man with iq of 200 makes himself look like an idiot"
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IQ has nothing to do with knowledge
Thats where you're wrong, kiddo
it really doesn't
Correct and that goes for education as well, some of the smartest people have little formal education. Intelligence is simply the ability to learn.
It's also very relevant in many fields.
Anybody Noname, that is one of the dumbest comments I've ever read.
Did you even understand what you wrote??
Like me momma says, "stupid is as stupid does." And you are stupid.
He said y’all already know I’m smart I don’t need to prove shit, GIMME MY MONEY!! 🤣
Anyone realize buddy said he knew Abbott and Costello very well and he selected “A” by accident.. the other guy said he just guessed “B” essentially. Would “B” not be the clear answer after that?
He really didn’t need to poll the mob, the fact that military dude said he was very familiar with the show and accidentally hit the wrong button and the second guy said he hit what should have really shown him “what” was the answer. Oh well, he still got 250k.
He used his last help on purpose. Once you run out of helps, you get a “sneak peek” at the next question.
@@930bestvideos that's why he's the smartest person in the US. I'm sure it was calculated.
Yet there's no evidence of him ever scoring a high IQ. Everything is self proclaimed.
If I told you I could fly and I made a docu-series about it, doesn't mean I can actually fly.
I find it telling that Chris Langan, the smartest idiot on the planet, would remember a Ronco product over a classic comedy routine.
That prick just insulted half the remaining people based on their age before *immediately* not knowing the answer himself. And then he stupidly wastes another of his "helps" after "I don't know" was removed as a possibility. It's not going to be Who on second if Who is on first. I get that this is trivia, relying on rote memory rather than intellect, but just this clip showed stupidity on his part. The only smart thing he did was to take the 250k and run.
I definitely wouldn't have known the next question's answer, but you know what I would've had? I would've had at least 2 of those "helps" left over.
What the F does the 1990 golden globe awards have to do with intelligence?
So he doesnt have a TV but somehow deferred Ron Popiel must be a late night infomercial.
The smartest man in America should be working for the government but instead he's on a game show. I pray for the sweet meteor of death.
But the smartest man in America right now IS running the government. The only trouble is he's so smart that to most people, he has exceeded the maximum and wrapped around and looks like an idiot again.
@@theredscourge neuh bruh how
6:14
Host is savage af
"cant drive" and "twice divorced" is both untrue lol and whatever a "neat freak" is