Ogi Ogas Explained

Ogi Ogas
Nationality:American
Occupation:Writer, theoretical neuroscientist
Known For:Game show contestant

Ogi Ogas is an American writer and computational neuroscientist. As of May 2016, he is a visiting scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he serves as Project Head for the Individual Mastery Project.[1] [2] Ogas is also known for his participation in game shows, especially Grand Slam (2007)[3] and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2006).[4]

Early life and education

Ogi Ogas was born and grew up in Annapolis, Maryland.[5] He attended Severna Park High School, where he was a member of the school's It's Academic team. [5] Ogas was awarded a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience by Boston University in 2009.[6] He was a United States Department of Homeland Security Fellow during his graduate studies.[7]

Career

Ogas is a visiting scholar at the Harvard University School of Education.[8] [9]

Ogas is the Project Head for the Individual Mastery Project in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which The Washington Post has described as "aimed at understanding the development of individual excellence."

Written works

A Billion Wicked Thoughts

Ogas's nonfiction book A Billion Wicked Thoughts (2011, with Sai Gaddam) analyzed the sexual terms used in web searches by approximately 100 million internet users. Some critics praised the book for its accessibility and entertainment value. Others noted that because the collected web searches were anonymous, the authors were limited in the conclusions they could draw from their analyses.[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]

This is What It Sounds Like

In 2022, W. W. Norton published This is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You, by Ogas and Susan Rogers.[20] [21]

Other contributions

Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry

Ogas is listed as a contributor to Jeffrey Lieberman's Shrinks[22] .[23] [24] As advertising prose from the Hatchett Books Group describes it, the book:

Shrinks received a starred review in Kirkus,[25] was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice,[26] and was longlisted for the PEN/E.O.Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.[27]

Game show appearances

$1 Million (15 of 15) - No Time Limit
Which of these ships was not one of the three taken over by colonists during the Boston Tea Party?
• A: Eleanorstyle=text-align:left; bgcolor="00008B"• B: Dartmouth
• C: Beaverstyle=text-align:left; bgcolor="green"• D: William
Ogas's $1,000,000 question
Ogas won $500,000 on an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire that aired on November 8, 2006, using his cognitive science research to guide his game strategy.[5] Ogas has intimated in interviews that he had a strong hunch about his final question (about the Boston Tea Party, shown), after tentatively eliminating three of the choices; he ultimately decided to walk away because of the large amount of money at risk ($475,000 of his $500,000). His hunch was correct. Since playing, he has appeared 22 times as the syndicated show's "Ask The Expert" Lifeline.

Ogas was also a contestant on Grand Slam, which aired in August and September 2007. He said that after feeling the intense emotional pressure on Millionaire, he developed a new suite of cognitive techniques for Grand Slam, including calming techniques as well as mathematical, verbal, and mnemonic heuristics derived from his brain research. He defeated former Millionaire contestant Nancy Christy in his first-round game and all-time game show winnings record holder and Jeopardy! champion Brad Rutter in the second round. Ogas then defeated former Twenty-One champion David Legler in the semifinals before losing to Ken Jennings in the final. More recently, he appeared on ABC's game show 500 Questions as one of the challengers.

Notes and References

  1. News: Is grit overrated in explaining student success? Harvard researchers have a new theory. Jeffrey Selingo. May 25, 2016. Washington Post. 6 July 2016.
  2. Web site: Individual Mastery Project at the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual. harvard.edu. 7 April 2016.
  3. Web site: Grand Slam TV Show. IMDB. 6 July 2016.
  4. Web site: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Episode Guide. Game Show Favorites. 6 July 2016.
  5. Web site: "Final Answer" Pays Off Big Time for Former DHS Fellow. 2006-11-15 . organizational press release . Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.
  6. Web site: Alumni directory. Boston University Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems. 6 July 2016.
  7. Web site: Boston U. Student Named Homeland Security Fellow. New York Times. Carrie Dieringer. September 11, 2003.
  8. Web site: Laboratory for the Science of the Individual. harvard.edu. 7 April 2016.
  9. The Faulty Foundation of American Colleges. Todd Rose and Ogi Ogas. January 17, 2016. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  10. Vasey . Paul . Abild . Miranda . 2013 . A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships . Archives of Sexual Behavior . 421 . 6 . 1101–1103. 10.1007/s10508-013-0170-5. 146627306 .
  11. Hummel. Anna. Shackelford. Todd. 2013 . What Our Sexy Past Reveals About Our Erotic Present . https://web.archive.org/web/20130511052500/http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/EP11238242.pdf . usurped . May 11, 2013 . Evolutionary Psychology . 11 . 1 . 238–242 . 10.1177/147470491301100120. 147703521. March 28, 2014. free.
  12. News: March 28, 2014 . McLellan . Diana . "A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire" by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam . The Washington Post . July 15, 2011 .
  13. Web site: March 28, 2014 . Landau . Elizabeth . Inside women's sexual brains, preferences and porn . CNN.com . May 9, 2011 .
  14. News: March 28, 2014 . Bennett . Jessica . Surfing for Sex: What Does It Reveal About Desire? . Newsweek . April 24, 2011 .
  15. March 28, 2014 . Szalavitz . Maia . Q&A: The Researchers Who Analyzed All the Porn on the Internet . Time . May 19, 2011 .
  16. News: March 28, 2014 . Schaub . Michael . Insane Science: 5 New Books That Explain The Brain . NPR . June 7, 2011 .
  17. News: March 28, 2014 . Kennedy . Brendan . What we want when nobody's watching? . The Toronto Star . May 10, 2011 .
  18. News: March 28, 2014 . . Kirkus Review . Kirkus Reviews . February 23, 2011 .
  19. News: March 28, 2014 . Yang . Wesley . Sex, Lies and Data Mining . The New York Times . July 29, 2011 .
  20. Web site: Luhrssen . David . 2022-11-17 . This is What it Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas . 2022-12-03 . Shepherd Express . en-us.
  21. Web site: Schulz . Isaac . 2022-11-22 . Why Do We Love the Music We Love? . 2022-12-03 . Gizmodo . en.
  22. Little, Brown and Company, 2015,
  23. The authorship is listed as "Jeffrey Lieberman, with Ogi Ogas."
  24. Lieberman is former president of the American Psychiatric Association and current chair of the Columbia Department of psychiatry.
  25. Book: SHRINKS. Jeffrey A. Lieberman. Kirkus Reviews. 7 April 2016.
  26. Web site: Editors' Choice. 5 April 2015. The New York Times. 7 April 2016.
  27. Web site: 2016 PEN Literary Awards Longlists. December 2015. pen.org. 7 April 2016.

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