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Dalai Lama & Hiroshi Ishiguro Among 'World's 100 Living Geniuses'

Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm, chose World's 100 Living Geniuses by awarding scores out of 10 to each entrant against a number of factors: paradigm shifting; popular acclaim; intellectual power; achievement and cultural importance. The firm emailed 4,000 Britons this summer and asked them to nominate up to 10 living people who they considered geniuses...............

There are also some surprise entrants. Osama Bin Laden ranks at number 43, a spot he shares with Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and Mohammed Ali, the former world heavyweight boxing champion.

The Brits might be a little nuts, but I think it looks like a survey based on name recognition and name recognition alone.

E-mail survey....................are all this bad?