when you realize how much money this guy actually lost he actually has a real reason to be pissed off and spend his time on it. At the minimum he lost 32K, but in reality he probably lost way more because he would have gotten a few more questions right most likely. I'd say his real damages are about 150K.
@OriginalMindTrick he actually did sue them. He is known for doing abstract and weird things with his intelligence and like I said before I think he has some type of personality or learning disorder as well as genius like a savant/asperger/obsessive traits. This is just his 15 minutes of fame. He definitely is a different individual but that is what makes this interesting is the jumbled mess of random facts and intelligence mixed in with an emotionally immature person.
@Deerslayer2k9 also it was worded like an exam question what is the "most" right answer if LaPaz wasn't on there he should of just went with the second highest official capital which is Quinto. This has a lot to do with his pride as I can relate to having an insatiable thirst for knowledge however the biggest mistake smart people make is believing that everyone around them is not as smart as them or even on there level. Pride can be a bad thing too.
I don't see any hope for his behavior getting any better as he gets older, more likely worse. He knows very well that all this nonsense is bad for him in all possible ways, but it's his Aspergers/OCD combined with a type A personality/high IQ that makes it impossible for him to change and become a more happy person. Such a fucking shame really.
@OriginalMindTrick The reason is that I recognize many of these traits (albeit on a micro scale) in myself. Not that I am a whimsical genius by any stretch but when you have above average intelligence and you see how ideas and beliefs are pushed onto people and how many of them buy into it you end up getting an air of superiority of the masses. That is a common mistake genius and smart people make is that no one is on there "level" even though many are.
I watched these vids because he has a high I.Q. and thought I could learn something from him. Turns out, I didn't learn a fuckin thing that's useful! He does have intelligence according to I.Q. standards, I'll assume. By other standards, I think he's a dumb ass! His ego is too big as well. This whole series was a waste of my time. This series might interest others and that's fine. I'm just stating a personal opinion is all. See ya! :)
@WizardAcid "Turns out, I didn't learn a fuckin thing that's useful!" Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that you learned that you mustn't be like him (unless you want to be a scientist). And what (roughly speaking) did you expect to learn, if it's not a secret?
@WizardAcid Well, you did spell out many things, so why not the important one(s)...Oh, right, maybe it wasn't as important to you as feeling of being cheated was. Please accept my sincere apology and my deepest condolences.
This guy is an absolute fruitcake. He needs to take his ass to a mental hospital and try to acquire some grasp of reality. I firmly believe that this man is clinically insane.
@ASwiftHippie Well, it's not insanity, it's a disorder (OCPD or OCD or autistic spectrum or none of them). Read something about them and try to guess which one (if anyone at all) describes Rick better.
@ASwiftHippie I watched that video over a year ago. I believe he's not a genius. If I'm not mistaken, he even confessed that he trained for IQ tests. But I'm careful at labelling someone insane (clinically). If one wants to be succesful at something, perfection (in combo with some other things) seems almost inevitable. I think the quiz question was sloppily expressed: what/which distinction. I searched the web and came to his "Three Letters of Protest". He's not stupid, I can tell.
@OriginalMindTrick Neither of those tests are valid first of all. Secondly, how many times did he take it? Third, where can we find accurate records of his scores?
You have a good point on the validity of the tests. It's difficult to even begin creating a test measuring IQ over 150-160, and to have a no time restricted policy combined with that you could take the test multiple times (under different names) makes it really hard to trust the scores. I think both Langan and Rosner took the test twice (Mega) still scoring at very high level the first time. The scores I believe are confirmed by Ronald Hoeflin.
@OriginalMindTrick Ron Hoeflin is the same man who faked Marylin Savant's iq score back in the 80's by taking her original test score of 132 and manipulating the variables within that test to make it look like she had an incredibly high IQ. It was a complete fake and both of these guys are obviously fake. The Mega IQ test is not scientifically valid and I do believe you can take it as many times as you like under the same name. Real IQ tests are timed and only score up to 160.
He sounds like a complete fool, if he is so clever how did he not believe in himself more.. and even if he got to Harvard and everyone was on the same wavelength would that not have been a breath of fresh air? I literally think he is a fucking idiot for throwing away half of his life eiter feeling sorry for himself or something along those line, I will mention its been a while since i saw this doc, so cant remember the ins and outs..
To be honest, giving him the benefit of the doubt that the question is flawed. I would expect a guy with a IQ as high as his to notice immediately, know the "actual" answer, but also know what the "question's answer" was...AND ANSWER IT.
Instead of going home and looking for a reason why he was right, instead of just accepting that he read the question wrong and should have been smart enough realize it.
I could almost waste as much time explaining the sheer lack of logic this man seems to posses, as he did devoting his life to going to high school. Seriously, i watched this because i find extraordinary people interesting; instead all i got was a dumb fuck who wasted his life and failed as a parent; if i wanted that i could have just chapped my neighbours door. I thought i was going to be amazed by the end of this, but i was just left more confused than transvestites underware.. WHAT THE FUCK!
He may have data smarts, but clearly lacks judgment. And I'm not even saying common sense, just judgment. Though that's all I can criticise while not having to deal with humility, this fucker shares too many of my flaws to my taste. Heh, maybe I should take an IQ test for the sake of it, but results will fuck me up placebo way big time and have me overthink about triflling matter. Which is all he has ever done.
This guy is baller all you guys saying he is psycho obv don't realize he has an iq of 180! Of course he is going to be upset with an improper question that might have cost him a milli
I can't believe I watched this whole series. This guy is obviously mentally ill. His obsession with his own intelligence is staggering. He clearly has no well formed concept of what intelligence is which is probably why he's so obsessed. I think lots of his stories are BS. He got the Millionaire question wrong, period. When he was in the chair, he knew he was choosing from the 4. No smart person wants to be in HS. I wish I could keep ranting about this psycho but I'm almost out of characters.
It was totally obvious that the question meant the highest of the four. Perhaps change the title to "The whinny narcissistic bitch". We only have his word for it he even has a high i.q. and by his own reckoning he is an habitual liar that has achieved nothing with his life. He failed at $16,000 and instead of taking it like a man he is crying like a baby about it.
A Conspiracy of that magnitude would be impossible to maintain. Millionaire is just a stupid TV show..in the USA. This ain't North Korea. The guy's got a high iq but suffers severe psychological deficiencies like a savant. (Think Rainman). Better keep an eye on him.
if in his research he found that katmandu was the most accurate question, in spite of it also being wrong. then i agree with him. if he finds that a capitol not listed was the right answer, that alone does not award him a reprieve since he did answer.
@behemuth he found a capitol that was not listed which was la paz Bolivia, which was the right answer to the question. It said what capital city, not which of these capital cities, implying that its the highest in the world. He was forced to answer, he couldn't just not answer it, there was no right answer listed so its irrelevant which of the four he chose regardless if it was"wrong" in their eyes.
@mriley858 regardless, he chose not to object to the question while in the chair, and he did choose one of the alternatives, which out of the ones listed was not the highest situated city in the world. On the other hand, he was not supposed to know which of the four cities presented there was correct, he was only supposed to know which city in the world. so yeah i hear you.
Really important point, Rick talks a lot about the financial loss that he suffered through the question, his analogy to a car crash doesn't seem right, because in the car crash scenario it is the loss of something already held, not the loss of something you could potentially have. Secondly, I fail to understand how the financial aspect could be what would upset someone who lived as a professional high school student for so long, when they could have been making a fortune if they wanted.
I've tested pretty high, IQ wise. But persistence will beat me well over half the time. perhaps 90%. Persistence is partly a consequence of IQ. IQ validates persistence. Everything i've done in my life where I've held on like a pit bull has always: 1: Turned out to be correct.. 2: proved victorious for me.
You have to be ready to be flexible, though, in order to be strong.
Rick is a zen master of this. I've learned a lot from watching these vids.
I think "Highest IQ" is a poor choice for a title. "Obsessed" or even "The $16,000 Question" would be better. I do sympathize with him a bit on the issue of the trivia question. I was certain that La Paz is higher than the three given Latin American cities and that the capital of Tibet may be higher than that. However, I could not remember the name of the Tibetan capital and I knew that Kathmandu was either in Nepal or Tibet. But question really asks for the highest of the four.
That is not what make this guy stand out for me. I really wished Errol didn't focus so much on the stupid millionaire thing as much as it would be great for Rick if he didn't focus as much on the stupid millionaire thing.
I could change the title to "Dog Food Eating Bouncer FAILS On The 16K Question" or something like that, but that would be ridiculous. I also chose this title to get maximum views to get this story told to as many people possible.
@FlashFizz if the question asked for the highest of the four, it would be phrased "which of these..." As it is now it's asking for the absolute highest located capital.
He's on an episode of A&E's show Obsessed. Once you learn he has OCD, most of his behavior isn't surprising. He can't let go of things as easily as others can, and it's affected his life in many ways.
i just watched all 6 of these videos, they were somewhat addictive. i think maybe i was waiting for the interesting part. I'm almost left with a feeling of motivation, not only was that a massive waste of time. it depicted how much someone can actually waste their time. Thanks for you motivational story Rick Rosner you're the dumbest genius in the world.
Me thinks this guy wants a MOVIE deal about his "life" as a "time traveling nerdy Jewish teenage forever" Einstein staring Ben Stiller or Jay Baruchel! coming to a cineplex near you "I.Q" ? by the Weinstein Company.
City elevation has nothing to do with politics or religion, so let's refer to Wikipedia on this. "The elevation of the city's central square is 2,800 metres [making] Quito the second-highest administrative capital city in the world (after La Paz, Bolivia), and the highest legal capital"
The question is definitely flawed if the term "capital" is ambiguous as this shows.
Does he therefore deserve a do-over, though he chose the worst of the four? (Kathmandu being the lowest elevation city, here)
It's not about a man who's an amazing genius, it's about a man with an obsessive compulsion towards do-overs. He has the inability to get over something and the end result is that he is now (or was) completely infatuated with the idea of high school and being a teenager. It's actually very pitiful. =(
angry violent monkey sex? WHat the fuck? Over! This dood has serious social issues. I never really fit into any one clique so I was able to move through all of them rather easily,plus I was the only 15 year lod with a full beard and the balls to go buy alcohol,so there was no social activity without the ringer, me. People are easily led, they are moths to flame,its desire and will to power that is easy to manipulate in humanity. We all want to be accepted, and loved, folks fawn over the idea.
It invalidates a test if taken repeatedly; as with anything, practice improves performance. The tests assume you are coming in cold. Improving at the test type does not translate to doing other things better, just the tests. I bought an IQ test program that was supposed to generate different tests. The third attempt I got a 100% IQ 165+. 142, then 156 then 165+. If it went higher, another test or two, I would max that out too. IQ is school learning potential. I have weaknesses. So error.
I heard the original "dork" was a guy who went around a high school campus sniffing girls' bicycle seats, and looking around ineffectively to see if anyone was watching.
This guy defines dork. Doesn't quite get the social ques that tell you what is acceptable: dog food consumption, maxi pads, scaring yourself, eating raw meat in class, singing about *, stripping, obsession with getting laid, 26 in HS, etc. Dork.
Millionaire questions asked were fine. Coming in 3s; easy question.
As for his "genus" nonsense. Given his obsession with do-overs, I am sure he took every IQ test available learning to take it better. That does not really change IQ, just the score.
@ChessMasterNate "That does not really change IQ, just the score." Did I understand you correctly, if I say that you're implying IQ tests don't measure intelligence? Yes, he allegedly learned how to solve IQ tests.
@OriginellerUserName Tests are measuring devises, when they are compromised, they of course yield inaccurate results. Intelligence is not something that changes dramatically over a week, or something. I am familiar with the amateurish mind game you are trying with definition. I suggest you read "A question of Intelligence" by Daniel Seligman. It clearly addresses those arguments. There is no space here for that here.
@OriginellerUserName Tests are measuring devises, when they are compromised, they of course yield inaccurate results. Intelligence is not something that changes dramatically over a week, or something. I am familiar with the amateurish mind game you are trying with definition. I suggest you read "A question of Intelligence" by Daniel Seligman. It clearly addresses those arguments. There is no space here for that here.
Why does he care so much about the money he's lost on millionaire when think of how much money he could have been earning if he had simply gone into a high paying proffession earning six figuire salary, which should be easy for him considering how smart he is, instead of pissing around with stripping and bouncing. He chose to be poor!
i think genius is not measured by how many facts you can recall, that is merely memory. rosner is focused on his status and how well he is accepted by others. but when it comes down it to it, he doesn't accept himself. when he removes himself from the endless pursuit to be correct in all aspects, and inserts himself into the pursuit of true genius, in which he can produce theories and question the world around us to a remarkable and accurate degree, then i will come to terms with his genius.
@AllyWheels I think he had all 3 still available. I have the show from the night before when he answered the first 7 questions. DIdn't use a lifeline. It's uploaded if you wanna see
@AllyWheels Yeah, but usually they try to save them until later in the show. Usually the first question is for $1000 and is actually a joke. Like, answer 'D' is a gag, or pun or something. This must have been a special edition episode.
He is trying to get another shot through a technicality. It's a weak argument.
It would have taken a person of average intelligence to 'infer' what way the question should have been written. He had the four possible answers right there and yet he wants us to believe that he spent 25 minutes searching the 4 options for La Paz !
It was a truly horrible question and I'm sure he feels hard done by that, but to try get another go, and thereby deny someone else a shot, is pitiful.
I see it as 70% Millionare's fault, 30% his fault. The 10% I'm adding is because of his lack of common sense to realize that he needs to pick from one of the four options given.
funny how he didn't state that the question was incorrectly phrased from the start.
Whereas after he had been eliminated, he talks about how he is so definite that the question was stated incorrectly. i say to hell with the persistence.
I don't follow his logic. Out of the available answers, he still gave the wrong answer, right? What's his beef? Seeing this guy and Langan make me wonder about IQ tests and which ones in particular they took and what they really merit or mean. IQ tests are culturally biased and only test specific areas of intelligence for starters. And both guys were bouncers ? Hmmmm.
First of all it isn't paedophilia finding high school girls attractive. It can't be classified as hebephilia either.
Second. If you watched these clips you would have heard him say that it would have been "inappropriate" to be intimate with high schoolers at his age, and by that I can only go by his words so who really knows. As long as the sex is consensual I don't have any problem what so ever. We need to get over this hang up on age and base relationships on real factors.
He's kidding on he's 17 when he's 31, isn't that a deceit on any young girl? And how do you know he was just hitting on girls above 16? High schools have girls aged 12-18 and he was around all of them. How anyone can defend such behaviour amazes me, he should have been jailed.
@OriginalMindTrick Paedophilia refers to 'children'. Is a 17 year old girl for example, truly a child? Legally, technically, it could be argued so. Show a man a picture of a very attractive 17 year old whose age he does not know. If he finds her attractive, is he a paedophile? To say that only paedophiles could find a 17 year old attractive is clearly bogus -especially when one looks at the age of consent in various countries. It depends on the definition of 'child'.
Wow, I thought Quito from the moment I saw the question and the possible answers. I know Venezuela is located very high, Ecuador is close, Quito = in Ecuador. Ergo, Quito was the answer.
I don't understand why (if he is so smart) he wouldn't go off and do the thing most intellectuals do, take a placement test into a Ivy League university or something. if his IQ was really that high, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford would love to have him. Instead he cons his way into repeating high school and gets almost nothing out of it except the realization that he wasted time. Doesn't sound to smart to me
Why didn't he just cherish the fact that he could build intricate machines at age 8? That is a skill that I and many other kids desperately wish we had. He could have occupied his time inventing and exploring and creating, for the amusement of himself and others, and have ended up with an extremely valuable and satisfying talent. Instead he committed himself to being hopelessly shallow. He turned away from happiness and reason and chose obsession. I can relate.
Dude seems mad pathetic in reality. I don't think memorizing things correlates to intelligence, problem solving does, or better yet common sense, like not going to high school when you're an old man? Most people don't have common sense, it's not common anymore.
I thought that's what the game show was all about! To assume this man is as logically intelligent as he parades himself about to be, then there's no mistake assuming he must have calculated his chances of losing on WWTBM. He is so wounded about that one question, occupies himself doing menial things like forging his way back into high school and harassing Michael Davies (albeit amusing!) and wants our sympathy?
This guy seems irratic, obsessing over irrelevant minutia to the point of absurd waste. I can relate, unfortunately. It can stifle your life progression terribly.
I see many parallels with the Chris Langan episode: dissociation, rejection of academia, difficulty with 'fitting in', lack of ambition. Intelligence, like wealth I guess, doesn't equate to happiness. Interesting life stories, but quite frankly I found them both rather weird.
As a member of Mensa, I believe that it didn't do me a bit of good in whole life as persistence did. Intelligence is like wealth, not such a big deal. Brian Tracy says that a broke genius is almost becoming a one word :D
@bokiboy Both said it quite nicely, with great power comes great responsibility. anyone who thinks its easier being smart is happy to be wrong since ignorance is bliss. While we may not face the same problems in life, our problems are also very persistent and they haunt us all our lives. Difference being, there's a very limited circle of people you can rely on for helping you with your problems while theres tons of material on the "more common" problems regular people face every day.
@dubaipete I thought the same thing! However, he doesn't weird me out. (Neither does Chris.) In fact, they make *too* much sense. (God help me.) By the by...if you've never worked/taught in academia, you wouldn't know how right they are about it. As *the* environment for "big thinking," it's as polluted as anything you can imagine.
This was a very fascinating documentary. Frighteningly similar personality to Chris Langan in some ways. I guess geniuses are eccentric/ half mad - hence the high school thing!. Millionaire simply meant 'Which of these' - and everyone would simply assume that would be the case - but an extreme co-incidence that he should be the one to get that wording. Reminds me of how once the smartest guy at my school was the only one who was confused about whether an 'anti-war protest' was pro-war?
I find it fascinating that he thought anti-war protest was pro-war. For a person with great sense of logic and a lesser understanding of concepts he thought they protested against anti-war = pro-war..Its a trait found in many highly gifted people with a slightly autistic brain-form to take things very literally. Like this, even to the point of absurdum.
@BiornNordic Because he regretted not doing so in the first place, for thinking his IQ was too low. He felt he got screwed over by an IQ test, which didn't state clearly enough its capability to measure intelligence, and so tried to get back what he had already lost - the opportunity to make something of his life.
Anyone else wonder if this guy maybe faked his iq somehow? He obviously has no inhibitions about lying. I don't doubt that he is well above average intelligence, but I'm pretty suspicious of his "one in a billion" iq score. He seems like the type of guy that would somehow try to game the system.
This guy is a dumbass. He got the wrong answer, he thinks he's smart, and he won't drop it. Probably like 95% of people that lose on a game show. He spends all those years in high school. He would be better off just drowning himself and saving us all the aggravation.
@OriginalMindTrick I'd say 4 but I skipped high school. If someone would've told me that teachers are wrong even in elementary school, I would've grasped so much more out of that. Basically its just pure mind control, teaching people to think in dualistic terms, everything is or isn't. Those who accept the view fully, tend to become atheists and scientists with pure logic, but less capability for abstract thinking. Likewise, those who reject tend to become religious, artists, abstract thinkers.
@OriginalMindTrick Yes, they have discarded religions and pursued greater knowledge, such that can be seen and witnessed. Thus, more concrete approach, while still abstract but the fundamental base for it isnt.
While people who see the world through religion see it a lot more abstract, they dont have logical rules to rule out their reality, except their own abstract blockers, while atheists have logical blockers to limit the understanding of "reality". I hope this made it any clearer.
Like a lot of people you saw wining who wants to be a millionaire as either a way to make up for all your missed opportunities in life by making you wealthy, or as a validation of your intelligence. Either way, you failed at this like many others do and your over-inflated ego just couldn’t handle it.
Whatever your IQ its time to realise it doesn’t mean anything without the ability to put things in perspective… time to move on.
Not always, but sometimes i tend to be harsh on idiots, people with no humor and straight up assholes which can come across as being being same thing to people who feel they felt hit be the comment. In real life I'm very polite and well mannered
This guy is obsessed with high school. He has the brain of a high schooler too, . doesnt know what to do with his life. I dont either, but i dont whine about it like this guy
This is really strange... Rick Rosner seems like what Michael Angelo would have looked like in real time and almost seems to posses similar intellect; however, Rick Rosner wasted his genius on stupid crap- he made life a game.
What makes this even more unbelievable, is Chris Langan looks similar to a Leonardo Da Vinci.. and behaves like a mortal god much the same...
I am almost positive that I saw Rick Rosner in an episode of Obsessed on A&E. His obsession was thought of delaying death and he had a whole range of related behaviors. He exercises seriously, often 10 times a day, and takes an enormous amount of vitamins and supplements. He exercise so much that he can't spend time with his wife. He has a many other OCD traits such as having to run up the stairs a certain way and constantly updating his journals, of which he hasn't missed a day in 20 yrs
It wouldn't matter if Millionaire gave him another chance to get back on the show anyways because they would just purposely give him the most hard and obscure questions lol
I do agree that this man should have a second try because that question was incorrectly phrased. He sent them proof and where they could research it, by them not doing so really shows that they didn't want to hurt their reputation and cause all other past contestants to research their information too. By him having a high IQ does not necessarily make him smart. You also have to know how to apply your intelligence for it to work for you like you want it to. High School for 20 years, not good.
Does speaking with a higher vocabulary make you more intellectual than the next person? I don't think so. Does it make you more creative? Perhaps. I believe that a heightened vocabulary just makes the speaker feel better about his or her self while trying to impress the listener. Or maybe I'm wrong. We may not know all the answers, but we should always ask the questions. The day we stop asking, even if it's just asking ourselves in our own minds, is the day we stop learning.
This guy is a very interesting character, but he's also very obsessive and odd in behavior. He may have a high IQ, but that means nothing in terms of living a better life like he wanted. He ended up repeating his senior year of high school multiple times just so he could get the kind of high school experience he wanted. He wanted to win the million dollars and he persistently questioned the show's validity when he missed a question. I think this proves that IQ isn't everything.
Intelligence and the ability to memorize garbage data are not the same thing. Intelligence is speed of mental processing and short-term memory which allows one to solve problems of a complexity that ordinary people can't - because their brains cannot process the large amount of logical variables involved in solving a complex problem. Jealous people look at this and say "see, he isn't so smart after all", when in reality a 90 IQ moron who sits watching TV all day will nail it and the genius no
He's "wasted a lot of time thinking about how to retrieve lost time." After sitting through all 6 parts of this video I'm sort of thinking the same thing.
when you realize how much money this guy actually lost he actually has a real reason to be pissed off and spend his time on it. At the minimum he lost 32K, but in reality he probably lost way more because he would have gotten a few more questions right most likely. I'd say his real damages are about 150K.
rjkennedy98 1 week ago
ITS COMEDY YOU UNBELIEVABLE FUCKING IDIOTS
version191 3 weeks ago
@version191
Rick was/is a comedy writer for Jimmy Kimmel...
OriginalMindTrick 3 weeks ago
@OriginalMindTrick he actually did sue them. He is known for doing abstract and weird things with his intelligence and like I said before I think he has some type of personality or learning disorder as well as genius like a savant/asperger/obsessive traits. This is just his 15 minutes of fame. He definitely is a different individual but that is what makes this interesting is the jumbled mess of random facts and intelligence mixed in with an emotionally immature person.
Deerslayer2k9 2 weeks ago
@Deerslayer2k9 also it was worded like an exam question what is the "most" right answer if LaPaz wasn't on there he should of just went with the second highest official capital which is Quinto. This has a lot to do with his pride as I can relate to having an insatiable thirst for knowledge however the biggest mistake smart people make is believing that everyone around them is not as smart as them or even on there level. Pride can be a bad thing too.
Deerslayer2k9 2 weeks ago
@Deerslayer2k9
I agree with that fully.
I don't see any hope for his behavior getting any better as he gets older, more likely worse. He knows very well that all this nonsense is bad for him in all possible ways, but it's his Aspergers/OCD combined with a type A personality/high IQ that makes it impossible for him to change and become a more happy person. Such a fucking shame really.
OriginalMindTrick 2 weeks ago
@OriginalMindTrick The reason is that I recognize many of these traits (albeit on a micro scale) in myself. Not that I am a whimsical genius by any stretch but when you have above average intelligence and you see how ideas and beliefs are pushed onto people and how many of them buy into it you end up getting an air of superiority of the masses. That is a common mistake genius and smart people make is that no one is on there "level" even though many are.
Deerslayer2k9 2 weeks ago
I watched these vids because he has a high I.Q. and thought I could learn something from him. Turns out, I didn't learn a fuckin thing that's useful! He does have intelligence according to I.Q. standards, I'll assume. By other standards, I think he's a dumb ass! His ego is too big as well. This whole series was a waste of my time. This series might interest others and that's fine. I'm just stating a personal opinion is all. See ya! :)
WizardAcid 3 weeks ago
@WizardAcid "Turns out, I didn't learn a fuckin thing that's useful!" Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that you learned that you mustn't be like him (unless you want to be a scientist). And what (roughly speaking) did you expect to learn, if it's not a secret?
mujotomi 3 weeks ago
@mujotomi If you want to get technical, okay, I did learn something. Do I really have to spell out everything?
WizardAcid 3 weeks ago
@WizardAcid Well, you did spell out many things, so why not the important one(s)...Oh, right, maybe it wasn't as important to you as feeling of being cheated was. Please accept my sincere apology and my deepest condolences.
mujotomi 3 weeks ago
@mujotomi You wanna come out of nowhere and nitpick everything I say? Alright. Enjoy yourself.
WizardAcid 2 weeks ago
This guy is an absolute fruitcake. He needs to take his ass to a mental hospital and try to acquire some grasp of reality. I firmly believe that this man is clinically insane.
ASwiftHippie 3 weeks ago 2
@ASwiftHippie Well, it's not insanity, it's a disorder (OCPD or OCD or autistic spectrum or none of them). Read something about them and try to guess which one (if anyone at all) describes Rick better.
mujotomi 3 weeks ago
@mujotomi Well, he's no genius. His IQ is nowhere near what he claims. He's a fraud.
Check this out. watch?v=0mjIO5YVaxo
Even I am a bit OCD lol. This man is insane imo...
ASwiftHippie 3 weeks ago
@ASwiftHippie I watched that video over a year ago. I believe he's not a genius. If I'm not mistaken, he even confessed that he trained for IQ tests. But I'm careful at labelling someone insane (clinically). If one wants to be succesful at something, perfection (in combo with some other things) seems almost inevitable. I think the quiz question was sloppily expressed: what/which distinction. I searched the web and came to his "Three Letters of Protest". He's not stupid, I can tell.
mujotomi 3 weeks ago
Rick, you need help. Getting now before it's too late.
16nowhereman 1 month ago
@OriginalMindTrick Neither of those tests are valid first of all. Secondly, how many times did he take it? Third, where can we find accurate records of his scores?
metalmike83 1 month ago
@metalmike83
You have a good point on the validity of the tests. It's difficult to even begin creating a test measuring IQ over 150-160, and to have a no time restricted policy combined with that you could take the test multiple times (under different names) makes it really hard to trust the scores. I think both Langan and Rosner took the test twice (Mega) still scoring at very high level the first time. The scores I believe are confirmed by Ronald Hoeflin.
OriginalMindTrick 1 month ago
@OriginalMindTrick Ron Hoeflin is the same man who faked Marylin Savant's iq score back in the 80's by taking her original test score of 132 and manipulating the variables within that test to make it look like she had an incredibly high IQ. It was a complete fake and both of these guys are obviously fake. The Mega IQ test is not scientifically valid and I do believe you can take it as many times as you like under the same name. Real IQ tests are timed and only score up to 160.
metalmike83 1 month ago
He sounds like a complete fool, if he is so clever how did he not believe in himself more.. and even if he got to Harvard and everyone was on the same wavelength would that not have been a breath of fresh air? I literally think he is a fucking idiot for throwing away half of his life eiter feeling sorry for himself or something along those line, I will mention its been a while since i saw this doc, so cant remember the ins and outs..
rossoh 1 month ago
To be honest, giving him the benefit of the doubt that the question is flawed. I would expect a guy with a IQ as high as his to notice immediately, know the "actual" answer, but also know what the "question's answer" was...AND ANSWER IT.
Instead of going home and looking for a reason why he was right, instead of just accepting that he read the question wrong and should have been smart enough realize it.
Thuph6hi 1 month ago
Clearly depicting that we may give " smart people " a little too much credit. Excentric yes
Highly intellegent, ? at least not displayed here.
I think we desire a lot of things we dont have. Even a high IQ can be missplaced desire.
Wisdom is to be desired, time and chance happens to all so make the best of what YOU got.
sonicvictory 1 month ago in playlist More videos from OriginalMindTrick
I could almost waste as much time explaining the sheer lack of logic this man seems to posses, as he did devoting his life to going to high school. Seriously, i watched this because i find extraordinary people interesting; instead all i got was a dumb fuck who wasted his life and failed as a parent; if i wanted that i could have just chapped my neighbours door. I thought i was going to be amazed by the end of this, but i was just left more confused than transvestites underware.. WHAT THE FUCK!
ScottishRamblyMan 1 month ago
He may have data smarts, but clearly lacks judgment. And I'm not even saying common sense, just judgment. Though that's all I can criticise while not having to deal with humility, this fucker shares too many of my flaws to my taste. Heh, maybe I should take an IQ test for the sake of it, but results will fuck me up placebo way big time and have me overthink about triflling matter. Which is all he has ever done.
TheEyeRoney 2 months ago
This guy is baller all you guys saying he is psycho obv don't realize he has an iq of 180! Of course he is going to be upset with an improper question that might have cost him a milli
AllThingsManly 2 months ago
I can't believe I watched this whole series. This guy is obviously mentally ill. His obsession with his own intelligence is staggering. He clearly has no well formed concept of what intelligence is which is probably why he's so obsessed. I think lots of his stories are BS. He got the Millionaire question wrong, period. When he was in the chair, he knew he was choosing from the 4. No smart person wants to be in HS. I wish I could keep ranting about this psycho but I'm almost out of characters.
suprachido 2 months ago
It was totally obvious that the question meant the highest of the four. Perhaps change the title to "The whinny narcissistic bitch". We only have his word for it he even has a high i.q. and by his own reckoning he is an habitual liar that has achieved nothing with his life. He failed at $16,000 and instead of taking it like a man he is crying like a baby about it.
WillShakespeare2007 2 months ago 8
highly intelligent, but very, VERY f*cking weird.
cantareli 2 months ago
OBSESSED
888sung 2 months ago
@IASOU2005 made sense to me : )
BartholomewBale 2 months ago
A Conspiracy of that magnitude would be impossible to maintain. Millionaire is just a stupid TV show..in the USA. This ain't North Korea. The guy's got a high iq but suffers severe psychological deficiencies like a savant. (Think Rainman). Better keep an eye on him.
IASOU2005 2 months ago
I think this guy wants to be Edward Cullen (a 17 year old attending high school forever)
LadyVanDaele 2 months ago
this guy is an idiot pretty much
EvanGri 3 months ago
if in his research he found that katmandu was the most accurate question, in spite of it also being wrong. then i agree with him. if he finds that a capitol not listed was the right answer, that alone does not award him a reprieve since he did answer.
behemuth 3 months ago
@behemuth he found a capitol that was not listed which was la paz Bolivia, which was the right answer to the question. It said what capital city, not which of these capital cities, implying that its the highest in the world. He was forced to answer, he couldn't just not answer it, there was no right answer listed so its irrelevant which of the four he chose regardless if it was"wrong" in their eyes.
mriley858 2 months ago
@mriley858 regardless, he chose not to object to the question while in the chair, and he did choose one of the alternatives, which out of the ones listed was not the highest situated city in the world. On the other hand, he was not supposed to know which of the four cities presented there was correct, he was only supposed to know which city in the world. so yeah i hear you.
behemuth 2 months ago
Really important point, Rick talks a lot about the financial loss that he suffered through the question, his analogy to a car crash doesn't seem right, because in the car crash scenario it is the loss of something already held, not the loss of something you could potentially have. Secondly, I fail to understand how the financial aspect could be what would upset someone who lived as a professional high school student for so long, when they could have been making a fortune if they wanted.
Oct195 3 months ago
Clearly his issue is more ego driven than financial, but he isn't honest enough to admit it.
Oct195 3 months ago
can he do the whole phone call thing again and get on the show legit and just restart?
Fruted1 3 months ago
I think a lack of paranoia and suspicion is the last thing this dude needs to worry about :D
Oct195 3 months ago
I've tested pretty high, IQ wise. But persistence will beat me well over half the time. perhaps 90%. Persistence is partly a consequence of IQ. IQ validates persistence. Everything i've done in my life where I've held on like a pit bull has always: 1: Turned out to be correct.. 2: proved victorious for me.
You have to be ready to be flexible, though, in order to be strong.
Rick is a zen master of this. I've learned a lot from watching these vids.
Thanks, and semper fidelis.
jelt110 3 months ago
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jelt110 3 months ago
I think "Highest IQ" is a poor choice for a title. "Obsessed" or even "The $16,000 Question" would be better. I do sympathize with him a bit on the issue of the trivia question. I was certain that La Paz is higher than the three given Latin American cities and that the capital of Tibet may be higher than that. However, I could not remember the name of the Tibetan capital and I knew that Kathmandu was either in Nepal or Tibet. But question really asks for the highest of the four.
FlashFizz 3 months ago
@FlashFizz
That is not what make this guy stand out for me. I really wished Errol didn't focus so much on the stupid millionaire thing as much as it would be great for Rick if he didn't focus as much on the stupid millionaire thing.
I could change the title to "Dog Food Eating Bouncer FAILS On The 16K Question" or something like that, but that would be ridiculous. I also chose this title to get maximum views to get this story told to as many people possible.
OriginalMindTrick 3 months ago
@FlashFizz if the question asked for the highest of the four, it would be phrased "which of these..." As it is now it's asking for the absolute highest located capital.
kouluampuja96 1 month ago
He's on an episode of A&E's show Obsessed. Once you learn he has OCD, most of his behavior isn't surprising. He can't let go of things as easily as others can, and it's affected his life in many ways.
liorasart 4 months ago
Did he seriously take 22 minutes to answer this question as someone else said here?
CyborgNinja7 4 months ago
i just watched all 6 of these videos, they were somewhat addictive. i think maybe i was waiting for the interesting part. I'm almost left with a feeling of motivation, not only was that a massive waste of time. it depicted how much someone can actually waste their time. Thanks for you motivational story Rick Rosner you're the dumbest genius in the world.
ThomasHartStudios 4 months ago 24
@ThomasHartStudios haha so true! ahahaha
cooperverdon 1 month ago
@ThomasHartStudios He's not a genius. At least not to the degree that he claims. He also clearly suffers from some sort of serious mental disorder.
ASwiftHippie 3 weeks ago
@ASwiftHippie That makes sense!
WizardAcid 3 weeks ago
Me thinks this guy wants a MOVIE deal about his "life" as a "time traveling nerdy Jewish teenage forever" Einstein staring Ben Stiller or Jay Baruchel! coming to a cineplex near you "I.Q" ? by the Weinstein Company.
CreoleCommando 4 months ago
Did I seriously just watch the guy with the "highest IQ" bitch about missing a Who Wants To Be A Millionaire question for an hour?
Shouldn't he be raking in $10 million a year at a hedge fund?
IJustMadeAComment 4 months ago
if he had gotten that question right this documentary wouldn't exist
MrSterlingjw 4 months ago
City elevation has nothing to do with politics or religion, so let's refer to Wikipedia on this. "The elevation of the city's central square is 2,800 metres [making] Quito the second-highest administrative capital city in the world (after La Paz, Bolivia), and the highest legal capital"
The question is definitely flawed if the term "capital" is ambiguous as this shows.
Does he therefore deserve a do-over, though he chose the worst of the four? (Kathmandu being the lowest elevation city, here)
horsie111 5 months ago
put me in the "stinky" chair again.... he he he
zeitguy311 5 months ago
It's not about a man who's an amazing genius, it's about a man with an obsessive compulsion towards do-overs. He has the inability to get over something and the end result is that he is now (or was) completely infatuated with the idea of high school and being a teenager. It's actually very pitiful. =(
Celloman4044 5 months ago
I remember seeing this guy on Obsession! he's mad weird....
fuckfuckfuck1 5 months ago
he's a vampire
margittarget 5 months ago
angry violent monkey sex? WHat the fuck? Over! This dood has serious social issues. I never really fit into any one clique so I was able to move through all of them rather easily,plus I was the only 15 year lod with a full beard and the balls to go buy alcohol,so there was no social activity without the ringer, me. People are easily led, they are moths to flame,its desire and will to power that is easy to manipulate in humanity. We all want to be accepted, and loved, folks fawn over the idea.
justaman6972 5 months ago
It invalidates a test if taken repeatedly; as with anything, practice improves performance. The tests assume you are coming in cold. Improving at the test type does not translate to doing other things better, just the tests. I bought an IQ test program that was supposed to generate different tests. The third attempt I got a 100% IQ 165+. 142, then 156 then 165+. If it went higher, another test or two, I would max that out too. IQ is school learning potential. I have weaknesses. So error.
ChessMasterNate 5 months ago
I heard the original "dork" was a guy who went around a high school campus sniffing girls' bicycle seats, and looking around ineffectively to see if anyone was watching.
ChessMasterNate 5 months ago
This guy defines dork. Doesn't quite get the social ques that tell you what is acceptable: dog food consumption, maxi pads, scaring yourself, eating raw meat in class, singing about *, stripping, obsession with getting laid, 26 in HS, etc. Dork.
Millionaire questions asked were fine. Coming in 3s; easy question.
As for his "genus" nonsense. Given his obsession with do-overs, I am sure he took every IQ test available learning to take it better. That does not really change IQ, just the score.
ChessMasterNate 5 months ago
@ChessMasterNate "That does not really change IQ, just the score." Did I understand you correctly, if I say that you're implying IQ tests don't measure intelligence? Yes, he allegedly learned how to solve IQ tests.
mujotomi 5 months ago
@ChessMasterNate What is IQ, if not the score?
OriginellerUserName 5 months ago
@OriginellerUserName Tests are measuring devises, when they are compromised, they of course yield inaccurate results. Intelligence is not something that changes dramatically over a week, or something. I am familiar with the amateurish mind game you are trying with definition. I suggest you read "A question of Intelligence" by Daniel Seligman. It clearly addresses those arguments. There is no space here for that here.
ChessMasterNate 5 months ago
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@OriginellerUserName Tests are measuring devises, when they are compromised, they of course yield inaccurate results. Intelligence is not something that changes dramatically over a week, or something. I am familiar with the amateurish mind game you are trying with definition. I suggest you read "A question of Intelligence" by Daniel Seligman. It clearly addresses those arguments. There is no space here for that here.
ChessMasterNate 5 months ago
And yes millionaire fucked him - but guess what? That's the world mate - get used to it!
ikadir18 5 months ago
Why does he care so much about the money he's lost on millionaire when think of how much money he could have been earning if he had simply gone into a high paying proffession earning six figuire salary, which should be easy for him considering how smart he is, instead of pissing around with stripping and bouncing. He chose to be poor!
ikadir18 5 months ago
i think genius is not measured by how many facts you can recall, that is merely memory. rosner is focused on his status and how well he is accepted by others. but when it comes down it to it, he doesn't accept himself. when he removes himself from the endless pursuit to be correct in all aspects, and inserts himself into the pursuit of true genius, in which he can produce theories and question the world around us to a remarkable and accurate degree, then i will come to terms with his genius.
likespaintball 6 months ago
how does this guy show his intelligence? smh.....
lbjmj2pac 6 months ago
Anybody got a taping of the show? Don't contestants get 3 lifelines on this show? Anybody know if he had any left at that stage?
AllyWheels 6 months ago
@AllyWheels
I really would like to see the whole show as well.
OriginalMindTrick 6 months ago
@OriginalMindTrick
ASwiftHippie 3 weeks ago
@AllyWheels During the credits you can hear Regis saying "If he had used his 50/50..." so he at least had that.
jrobinson3k1 5 months ago
@AllyWheels I think he had all 3 still available. I have the show from the night before when he answered the first 7 questions. DIdn't use a lifeline. It's uploaded if you wanna see
WWTBAMclassics 3 months ago
@AllyWheels Yeah, but usually they try to save them until later in the show. Usually the first question is for $1000 and is actually a joke. Like, answer 'D' is a gag, or pun or something. This must have been a special edition episode.
zakfmt 1 month ago
He is trying to get another shot through a technicality. It's a weak argument.
It would have taken a person of average intelligence to 'infer' what way the question should have been written. He had the four possible answers right there and yet he wants us to believe that he spent 25 minutes searching the 4 options for La Paz !
It was a truly horrible question and I'm sure he feels hard done by that, but to try get another go, and thereby deny someone else a shot, is pitiful.
AllyWheels 6 months ago
i don't like this guy, he's a looser
k98Lemur 6 months ago
btw i would have said/guessed quito and i have a normal iq lol
IALON 6 months ago
I agree that the question should have said "what is the highest city among these choices".
However:
a) you should have realized the question was faulty and said something at the time since you apparently took 22 minutes to think about it
b) if you have are as smart as you claim you should have been able to come up with the highest city among those 4.
Either way it sounds like this guy really let it torture him and it is has affected his relationship with his daughter which is a shame.
WilliamAdams47 6 months ago
Who the hay would want to stay in high school until they are 26??? What a waste of a genius mind.
Miss65boo 6 months ago
There's a reason that IQ information is usually not supplied to students and this video demonstrates what a good policy that is.
The problem here isn't a poorly worded question on Millionaire the problem here is a misspent life.
dimbulb23 6 months ago
We see here once again the uniquely Jewish combination of hyper-smartness, irreverence and vileness
OriginellerUserName 6 months ago
I see it as 70% Millionare's fault, 30% his fault. The 10% I'm adding is because of his lack of common sense to realize that he needs to pick from one of the four options given.
SheikBTW 6 months ago
This is stupid. Quito is way higher than Kathmandu in elevation.
daniel7899999 7 months ago
i really wanna know how he came up with probability that the hsow came up with an incorrectly phrased question ahha
kelvin9337 7 months ago
funny how he didn't state that the question was incorrectly phrased from the start.
Whereas after he had been eliminated, he talks about how he is so definite that the question was stated incorrectly. i say to hell with the persistence.
kelvin9337 7 months ago
i wasted alot of time just now waiting for him to talk about something intellectual
dainamiku 7 months ago
hair plugs
pandpinjapan 7 months ago
I don't follow his logic. Out of the available answers, he still gave the wrong answer, right? What's his beef? Seeing this guy and Langan make me wonder about IQ tests and which ones in particular they took and what they really merit or mean. IQ tests are culturally biased and only test specific areas of intelligence for starters. And both guys were bouncers ? Hmmmm.
Nautilus1972 7 months ago
I don't follow his logic. Out of the available answers, he still gave the wrong answer, right? What's his beef?
Nautilus1972 7 months ago
He bored me so much I completely missed what he said about high school anyway ....
Nautilus1972 7 months ago
is he a sex case?
Gonzoidzz 8 months ago
@Gonzoidzz
Are you trolling or just stupid?
OriginalMindTrick 8 months ago
@OriginalMindTrick
Kidding on your a school kid up to age 31 suggests paedophile leanings. Unless you find that acceptable of course.
Gonzoidzz 8 months ago
@Gonzoidzz
First of all it isn't paedophilia finding high school girls attractive. It can't be classified as hebephilia either.
Second. If you watched these clips you would have heard him say that it would have been "inappropriate" to be intimate with high schoolers at his age, and by that I can only go by his words so who really knows. As long as the sex is consensual I don't have any problem what so ever. We need to get over this hang up on age and base relationships on real factors.
OriginalMindTrick 8 months ago
@OriginalMindTrick
He's kidding on he's 17 when he's 31, isn't that a deceit on any young girl? And how do you know he was just hitting on girls above 16? High schools have girls aged 12-18 and he was around all of them. How anyone can defend such behaviour amazes me, he should have been jailed.
Gonzoidzz 8 months ago
@Gonzoidzz
Don't confuse junior high with high school. Why would you care if someone 26 or 31 are dating a 18 year olds?
In jail? Stop trolling.
OriginalMindTrick 8 months ago
@OriginalMindTrick
If the 31 y/o is enrolled in a High School as bogus pupil I would care and so should you, idiot.
Gonzoidzz 8 months ago
@Gonzoidzz
The only one here talking about sex with high school girls are you and not Rick.
OriginalMindTrick 8 months ago
@OriginalMindTrick
lol. Is that best you can do? He does talk about it, and he did date school girls that he lied to. A freak like you sees no wrong of course.
Gonzoidzz 8 months ago
@OriginalMindTrick Paedophilia refers to 'children'. Is a 17 year old girl for example, truly a child? Legally, technically, it could be argued so. Show a man a picture of a very attractive 17 year old whose age he does not know. If he finds her attractive, is he a paedophile? To say that only paedophiles could find a 17 year old attractive is clearly bogus -especially when one looks at the age of consent in various countries. It depends on the definition of 'child'.
Nautilus1972 7 months ago
@Nautilus1972
No paedophilia refer to attraction towards prepubescent children.
Other then that I agree with what you are saying.
If you find girls aged 13-15 attractive you are a hebephile and not a paedophile.
OriginalMindTrick 7 months ago
he won a thousand, should be delighted.
Gonzoidzz 8 months ago
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Gonzoidzz 8 months ago
Wow, I thought Quito from the moment I saw the question and the possible answers. I know Venezuela is located very high, Ecuador is close, Quito = in Ecuador. Ergo, Quito was the answer.
jethyy 8 months ago
I don't understand why (if he is so smart) he wouldn't go off and do the thing most intellectuals do, take a placement test into a Ivy League university or something. if his IQ was really that high, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford would love to have him. Instead he cons his way into repeating high school and gets almost nothing out of it except the realization that he wasted time. Doesn't sound to smart to me
shredftw 8 months ago
this guy is creepy as fuck
SolarisHyperion 8 months ago
I don't blame him for choosing kathmandu..
Jontman07 9 months ago
Why didn't he just cherish the fact that he could build intricate machines at age 8? That is a skill that I and many other kids desperately wish we had. He could have occupied his time inventing and exploring and creating, for the amusement of himself and others, and have ended up with an extremely valuable and satisfying talent. Instead he committed himself to being hopelessly shallow. He turned away from happiness and reason and chose obsession. I can relate.
sevenslimysnails 9 months ago in playlist Errol Morris First Person
I see this as a piece about obsession.
moonshadow112358 9 months ago
if you want to see him hit his chest over and over again press 3 over and over again
metalflameful 9 months ago
Dude seems mad pathetic in reality. I don't think memorizing things correlates to intelligence, problem solving does, or better yet common sense, like not going to high school when you're an old man? Most people don't have common sense, it's not common anymore.
Lowfaqat 10 months ago
"... I didn't have perfect knowledge."
I thought that's what the game show was all about! To assume this man is as logically intelligent as he parades himself about to be, then there's no mistake assuming he must have calculated his chances of losing on WWTBM. He is so wounded about that one question, occupies himself doing menial things like forging his way back into high school and harassing Michael Davies (albeit amusing!) and wants our sympathy?
'First Person'? More like 'Angry Geniuses'!
UltraPants 10 months ago
Now I'm thinking I should see a shrink
antsunii 10 months ago
hahah kathmandu is where im from.
nepalihercules 10 months ago
This guy seems irratic, obsessing over irrelevant minutia to the point of absurd waste. I can relate, unfortunately. It can stifle your life progression terribly.
cosg9531 10 months ago
This guy is delusional
dean2663 10 months ago
a damn creepy guy.
kunaak 10 months ago
I see many parallels with the Chris Langan episode: dissociation, rejection of academia, difficulty with 'fitting in', lack of ambition. Intelligence, like wealth I guess, doesn't equate to happiness. Interesting life stories, but quite frankly I found them both rather weird.
dubaipete 11 months ago 10
@dubaipete you summed it up beautifully. thanks.
As a member of Mensa, I believe that it didn't do me a bit of good in whole life as persistence did. Intelligence is like wealth, not such a big deal. Brian Tracy says that a broke genius is almost becoming a one word :D
It's way harder to be rightful than smart.
bokiboy 10 months ago
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decemi 8 months ago
@decemi eh?
decemi 8 months ago
@bokiboy Both said it quite nicely, with great power comes great responsibility. anyone who thinks its easier being smart is happy to be wrong since ignorance is bliss. While we may not face the same problems in life, our problems are also very persistent and they haunt us all our lives. Difference being, there's a very limited circle of people you can rely on for helping you with your problems while theres tons of material on the "more common" problems regular people face every day.
decemi 8 months ago
@dubaipete I thought the same thing! However, he doesn't weird me out. (Neither does Chris.) In fact, they make *too* much sense. (God help me.) By the by...if you've never worked/taught in academia, you wouldn't know how right they are about it. As *the* environment for "big thinking," it's as polluted as anything you can imagine.
joemichaels1 5 months ago
This was a very fascinating documentary. Frighteningly similar personality to Chris Langan in some ways. I guess geniuses are eccentric/ half mad - hence the high school thing!. Millionaire simply meant 'Which of these' - and everyone would simply assume that would be the case - but an extreme co-incidence that he should be the one to get that wording. Reminds me of how once the smartest guy at my school was the only one who was confused about whether an 'anti-war protest' was pro-war?
ikadir18 11 months ago 3
@ikadir18
I find it fascinating that he thought anti-war protest was pro-war. For a person with great sense of logic and a lesser understanding of concepts he thought they protested against anti-war = pro-war..Its a trait found in many highly gifted people with a slightly autistic brain-form to take things very literally. Like this, even to the point of absurdum.
OriginalMindTrick 11 months ago
he's a narcissist and a perfectionist and he can't admit that he didn't know the answer to that question
all this about the question being presented wrong is but his mental illness, he's trying to cover up his mistake
he's not a total moron though, he also tries to hide the fact that he's a terrible narcissist, he avoids talking of himself like that
winning-teams(dot)com/recognizenarcissist.html
SilverFigure 11 months ago
@SilverFigure i agree
DAdZor 10 months ago
@BiornNordic Because he regretted not doing so in the first place, for thinking his IQ was too low. He felt he got screwed over by an IQ test, which didn't state clearly enough its capability to measure intelligence, and so tried to get back what he had already lost - the opportunity to make something of his life.
TheCrazyFinn 11 months ago
Anyone else wonder if this guy maybe faked his iq somehow? He obviously has no inhibitions about lying. I don't doubt that he is well above average intelligence, but I'm pretty suspicious of his "one in a billion" iq score. He seems like the type of guy that would somehow try to game the system.
QuotidianHegemony 11 months ago
This guy is a dumbass. He got the wrong answer, he thinks he's smart, and he won't drop it. Probably like 95% of people that lose on a game show. He spends all those years in high school. He would be better off just drowning himself and saving us all the aggravation.
hangfire0352 11 months ago
@Oxydox
Then we are 3
OriginalMindTrick 11 months ago
@OriginalMindTrick 4, count me in
nhianho 11 months ago
@OriginalMindTrick 4!
rhov233 10 months ago
@OriginalMindTrick 4 of us. Join us if you weren't enough to live in peace after that chapter.
Erdeqarde 9 months ago
@OriginalMindTrick I'd say 4 but I skipped high school. If someone would've told me that teachers are wrong even in elementary school, I would've grasped so much more out of that. Basically its just pure mind control, teaching people to think in dualistic terms, everything is or isn't. Those who accept the view fully, tend to become atheists and scientists with pure logic, but less capability for abstract thinking. Likewise, those who reject tend to become religious, artists, abstract thinkers.
decemi 8 months ago
@decemi
I'm not following your logic.
Where is the link between rejection of religious dogma and a lack of abstraction abilities?
A significant part of the greatest abstract thinkers of the last 100 years have been atheists or agnostics.
OriginalMindTrick 8 months ago
@OriginalMindTrick Yes, they have discarded religions and pursued greater knowledge, such that can be seen and witnessed. Thus, more concrete approach, while still abstract but the fundamental base for it isnt.
While people who see the world through religion see it a lot more abstract, they dont have logical rules to rule out their reality, except their own abstract blockers, while atheists have logical blockers to limit the understanding of "reality". I hope this made it any clearer.
decemi 8 months ago
highschool is your passion? that sounds...healthy? lol
SuperChillSurge 11 months ago
Can’t say I have a lot of sympathy for you Rick.
Like a lot of people you saw wining who wants to be a millionaire as either a way to make up for all your missed opportunities in life by making you wealthy, or as a validation of your intelligence. Either way, you failed at this like many others do and your over-inflated ego just couldn’t handle it.
Whatever your IQ its time to realise it doesn’t mean anything without the ability to put things in perspective… time to move on.
Tb
tbrasc0 11 months ago 2
he's interesting but I'd like to hear more about his ideas and not just his life.
InnocenceExperience 11 months ago 2
What a shame. He is stuck in his past and has been ever since high-school.
He ponders too much about negativity in his past (Like high school or the 16K question).
His life would be so much more productive if he would start to live in the present or maybe even a little in the future.
Damn shame!
sadekgheidan 1 year ago
SO HE DIDNT WIN THE 1 MILLION WTF
roeKY 1 year ago
Why is OriginalMindTrick always an asshole?
DavidEnvy 1 year ago
@DavidEnvy
Not always, but sometimes i tend to be harsh on idiots, people with no humor and straight up assholes which can come across as being being same thing to people who feel they felt hit be the comment. In real life I'm very polite and well mannered
OriginalMindTrick 1 year ago
This guy is obsessed with high school. He has the brain of a high schooler too, . doesnt know what to do with his life. I dont either, but i dont whine about it like this guy
markov2b1 1 year ago 2
this guy looks like anton lavey with hair...he looks evil when the do the slow mo bit-in the millionaire chair! creepy!
Lauzon12 1 year ago
Da Vinci was optimistic about life and I think of him as the good god, and Angelo was the pessimist and I think of him as the twisted god.
The same as Chris Langan and Rick Rosner...
salasvalor01 1 year ago
This is really strange... Rick Rosner seems like what Michael Angelo would have looked like in real time and almost seems to posses similar intellect; however, Rick Rosner wasted his genius on stupid crap- he made life a game.
What makes this even more unbelievable, is Chris Langan looks similar to a Leonardo Da Vinci.. and behaves like a mortal god much the same...
Da Vinci and Angelo were rivals.
It almost seems that way with these two.
It's strange.
salasvalor01 1 year ago
@salasvalor01 Art titans same or similar like chris langan and rick rosner ? I doubt about it.
ViciousCritique 6 months ago
I am almost positive that I saw Rick Rosner in an episode of Obsessed on A&E. His obsession was thought of delaying death and he had a whole range of related behaviors. He exercises seriously, often 10 times a day, and takes an enormous amount of vitamins and supplements. He exercise so much that he can't spend time with his wife. He has a many other OCD traits such as having to run up the stairs a certain way and constantly updating his journals, of which he hasn't missed a day in 20 yrs
StuffyG 1 year ago
these errol morris documentaries are awesome!
ivionday 1 year ago
It wouldn't matter if Millionaire gave him another chance to get back on the show anyways because they would just purposely give him the most hard and obscure questions lol
xralph87x 1 year ago
The dumbest genius I ever saw....
mcbrite 1 year ago
I do agree that this man should have a second try because that question was incorrectly phrased. He sent them proof and where they could research it, by them not doing so really shows that they didn't want to hurt their reputation and cause all other past contestants to research their information too. By him having a high IQ does not necessarily make him smart. You also have to know how to apply your intelligence for it to work for you like you want it to. High School for 20 years, not good.
roblou62 1 year ago
This guy really sold me- he's right, the question was wrongly phrased.
ellaelise 1 year ago
lolol 100 different high schools. hilarious
fornello123 1 year ago
Does speaking with a higher vocabulary make you more intellectual than the next person? I don't think so. Does it make you more creative? Perhaps. I believe that a heightened vocabulary just makes the speaker feel better about his or her self while trying to impress the listener. Or maybe I'm wrong. We may not know all the answers, but we should always ask the questions. The day we stop asking, even if it's just asking ourselves in our own minds, is the day we stop learning.
lenlee14 1 year ago
This guy is a very interesting character, but he's also very obsessive and odd in behavior. He may have a high IQ, but that means nothing in terms of living a better life like he wanted. He ended up repeating his senior year of high school multiple times just so he could get the kind of high school experience he wanted. He wanted to win the million dollars and he persistently questioned the show's validity when he missed a question. I think this proves that IQ isn't everything.
JackAttack92 1 year ago
Intelligence and the ability to memorize garbage data are not the same thing. Intelligence is speed of mental processing and short-term memory which allows one to solve problems of a complexity that ordinary people can't - because their brains cannot process the large amount of logical variables involved in solving a complex problem. Jealous people look at this and say "see, he isn't so smart after all", when in reality a 90 IQ moron who sits watching TV all day will nail it and the genius no
PCoderch 1 year ago
well this was kinda odd
Wizhix 1 year ago
if he's is a genius why did'nt he use one or all of his life line on that question
navic323 1 year ago
He's "wasted a lot of time thinking about how to retrieve lost time." After sitting through all 6 parts of this video I'm sort of thinking the same thing.
md65000 1 year ago 66
@md65000
After reading your comment and replying to it i feel the same way.
OriginalMindTrick 1 year ago 28