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- noun A mentally challenged person who is very gifted in one area of activity, e.g. the piano. This condition is associated with
autism .
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Examples
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The only way a “science type” would end up a Firebagger is if they basically had a split personality, or were some sort of idiot-savant incapable of applying scientific reasoning outside of a particular field.
Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option 2010
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The only way a “science type” would end up a Firebagger is if they basically had a split personality, or were some sort of idiot-savant incapable of applying scientific reasoning outside of a particular field.
Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option 2010
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I think that the idiot-savant problem is real, and Joseph Stiglitz is an example of someone whose economic reasoning and policy analysis strike me as disjoint.
Where is the Failure?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The focus on mathematical training in these programs is so intense that they tend to produce a sort of idiot-savant, competent only to publish in academic journals.
Where is the Failure?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The corporation in this global market has morphed into a kind of idiot-savant.
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Over the past 35 years, Chicago-born Philips has won a devoted cult following, with his strange, idiot-savant persona and his crafted gags? three of his jokes made it into GQ's 75 Best Jokes of All Time.
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That pregnant lesbian FBI chick is a mole, no, she's a double agent, and that creepy idiot-savant has broken into Penny Widmore-Hume's house, and the hot Finnes brother found a ring of power hidden in a chess queen, but the pregnant lesbian has orders to kill him.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: Shuffle Bored! 2010
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That pregnant lesbian FBI chick is a mole, no, she's a double agent, and that creepy idiot-savant has broken into Penny Widmore-Hume's house, and the hot Finnes brother found a ring of power hidden in a chess queen, but the pregnant lesbian has orders to kill him.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: Shuffle Bored! 2010
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The endearing Khan, an idiot-savant in the Rain Man mould, travels across the country, showing up in such unlikely places as Santa Fe, New Mexico, Bowling Green, Kentucky and a tiny town in the state of Georgia called Wilhelmina.
The Accidental Terrorist Sadanand Dhume 2010
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The endearing Khan, an idiot-savant in the Rain Man mould, travels across the country, showing up in such unlikely places as Santa Fe, New Mexico, Bowling Green, Kentucky and a tiny town in the state of Georgia called Wilhelmina.
The Accidental Terrorist Sadanand Dhume 2010
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