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anigbrowl on Feb 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Childhoods of Exceptional People

Thinking about this question, I wrote down a list of twenty names—von Neumann, Tolstoy, Curie, Pascal, etc—selected on the highly scientific criteria “a random Swedish person can recall their name and think, Sounds like a genius to me”.

This is not even wrong, never mind less.

314 on Feb 20, 2023 | [–]

I tried this on a random Swedish person and she identified all of the names as people that sounded like a genius. Seems legit.

seymourhersh on Feb 20, 2023 | [–]

Which of the people listed do you think are poor choices for the purposes of the article?

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