# Who’s the smartest person on this board?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-the-smartest-person-on-this-board/176908>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 22, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-the-smartest-person-on-this-board/176908 "2003-05-22T22:13:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-the-smartest-person-on-this-board/176908/61 "2003-05-26T13:10:02Z")

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I really don’t think you could find _one_ person that everyone would agree on.

Some people are extremely creative writers/songsters.

Some people are almost renaissance men with their well rounded out knowledge.

Some people have an amazing amount of talent/wisdom/knowledge/experience about one or two fields.

Some people are very gifted in the art of persuasion, able to make their opinion look totally reasonable.

Some people are funny as hell. (That’s hard.)

So…

How do you choose?

Who’s criteria is used to judge?

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