Ask A Genius 248 – Magnus
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/08/03
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Jacobsen: Okay.
Rick Rosner: So, you could argue that there are a huge practice effect and a huge determination in the diligence.
So, I mean the whole thing is arbitrary again in the same way that when, if you have ever watched the world’s strongest man, see a bunch of guys who weigh anywhere from 280 to 400 pounds doing various things that take tremendous strength.
Lifting stone balls that are two feet in diameter. Pushing 800-pound truck tires that are 10 feet in diameter, end over end. Racing while towing a semi that might go for I don’t know 10,000 pounds. And there are different people win different events.
There’s no world’s strongest man whose won that thing eight years in a row, I don’t think, maybe there is. His name is probably something Scandinavian-like, the name Magnus Carlson comes to mind.
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