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Watch out, there are some 2+2 patrons who are upset with Sklansky's musings in the twoplustwo.com Science page and are trying to insert disparaging and personally insulting comments in his Wikipedia entry.
Can someone track down a more recent picture of Sklansky than the almost 30 year old one on this page?
I have removed the "claims" section. Neither claim is cited and so must be removed from biographies of living people, as per wikipedia policy. Even if cited, however, I'm not sure they are all that relevant. If we had a longer article and discussed the details of Sklansky's contributions in more detail this might be appropriate. Merely suggesting that he is vain without any discussion of the source of that supposed vanity is overly biased, in my opinion. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 22:23, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I just read that Sklansky had offered a wager that there would be no fundamentalist Christian able to best him at GRE or SAT. Anyone know anything about that?
The bet is in 2 parts;
(1) The person has to pass a lie detector test in which they claim they are 95% Confident of the resurrection of Christ & also they are 95% confident that only those who believe in the resurrection will go to heaven
(2) They must sit those tests & do better than Sklansky. $50k if they beat him $2k if they tie
His theory is that Fundamentalist Christians are less likely to be brilliant scientists than Asians, Jews or Atheists. Presumably because of the seeming irrationality of their core beliefs?
sorry, i think david skansky is not an author ... he writed a lot of book on poker but he is a mathematic (i don't know very well english but you understood ;) --82.91.173.242 12:55, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ken Jennings accepted, Sklansky backed down. Jesus wept. CalG 00:47, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
this certainly deserves a section.
(links removed, --Enric Naval (talk) 13:04, 20 May 2008 (UTC))[reply]
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68.229.35.13 (talk) 22:00, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have read "Getting The Best Of It" and "Poker, Gaming, & Life" and it seems that this dude is a brilliant mathematician. Is there any way we can reference his intellect in the means of IQ score or full SAT score? —Preceding unsigned comment added by BurtonReingold (talk • contribs) 16:53, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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