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“Christopher Michael Langan (born c.1957) is a noted American autodidact in the fields of mathematics, physics, cosmology and the cognitive sciences[1]. Various media sources report Langan as having an estimated IQ of 195[2][3][4][5]. According to 20/20, Langan scored “off the charts” when tested by Dr. Robert Novelly. Novelly, a board certified neuropsychologist, commented that Langan was “the highest individual that I have ever measured in 25 years” of testing[6]. Filmmaker Errol Morris directed an hour-long documentary on Langan titled “The Smartest Man in the World” [7].

With only a small amount of college, Langan has held a variety of labor-intensive jobs including construction worker, cowboy, firefighter, farmhand, and perhaps most famously, bar bouncer. Accordingly, he has sometimes been stereotyped as the sort of individual who combines an extremely high IQ with little or no official recognition in the academic “real world” of intellectual commerce [8]. Langan, who grew up in Montana, currently owns and operates a horse ranch in northern Missouri. Langan has written question and answer columns for New York Newsday[9], The Improper Hamptonian[10], and Men’s Fitness[11] He serves on the board of the Mega Foundation, a nonprofit foundation for the gifted. Langan is also a fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design (ISCID)[12], a non-profit professional society whose stated purpose is to investigate complex systems using information- and design-theoretic concepts. The organization promotes intelligent design, the controversial idea that there is scientific evidence for design in life……”

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