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{{Infobox person
| name        = Ogi J. Ogas
| birth_name  = Johnathan Raymond Ogas{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}
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| nationality = [[Americans|American]]
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| occupation  = Writer, [[theoretical neuroscience|theoretical neuroscientist]]
| known_for   = [[Game show]] contestant
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'''Ogi Jonathan Ogas''' is an American writer who received doctoral training as a [[computational neuroscience|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.<ref name="wp">{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/05/25/is-grit-overrated-in-explaining-student-success-harvard-researchers-have-a-new-theory-and-its-not-comforting-at-all/|title=Is grit overrated in explaining student success? Harvard researchers have a new theory|author=Jeffrey Selingo|date=May 25, 2016|work=Washington Post|access-date=6 July 2016}}</ref><ref name="har">{{cite web|url=http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/gse-individuality/individual-mastery|title=Individual Mastery Project at the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual|work=harvard.edu|access-date=7 April 2016}}</ref> Ogas is also known for his participation in [[game shows]], especially ''[[Grand Slam (US game show)|Grand Slam]]'' (2007)<ref name="gs">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057573/|work=IMDB|title=Grand Slam TV Show|access-date=6 July 2016}}</ref> and ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (US game show)|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire]]'' (2006).<ref name="million">{{cite web|url=http://www.gameshowfavorites.com/trading/show.php?name=viera&page=11|work=Game Show Favorites|title=Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Episode Guide|access-date=6 July 2016}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Ogi Ogas was born and grew up in [[Annapolis, Maryland]].<ref name="or">{{cite web|url=http://www.orau.org/media-center/news-releases/2006/fy07-10.aspx|title="Final Answer" Pays Off Big Time for Former DHS Fellow|date=2006-11-15 | format = organizational press release |publisher=Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education}}</ref>{{better source|date=April 2016}} He attended [[Severna Park High School]], where he was a member of the school's [[It's Academic]] team. {{when|date=April 2016}}<ref name="or"/> Ogas was awarded a [[Ph.D.]] in [[computational neuroscience]] by [[Boston University]] in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cns.bu.edu/people/alumni.html|title=Alumni directory|work=Boston University Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems|access-date=6 July 2016}}</ref> He was a [[United States Department of Homeland Security]] Fellow during his graduate studies.{{when|date=April 2016}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Boston U. Student Named Homeland Security Fellow|work=New York Times|author=Carrie Dieringer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/uwire/uwire_UDPV091120033054756.html | date=September 11, 2003}}</ref>

==Career==
Ogas is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University School of Education,<ref name="wp" /><ref name="har" /> where he conducts research in the Laboratory for the Science of the Individual.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lsi.gse.harvard.edu/|title=Laboratory for the Science of the Individual|work=harvard.edu|access-date=7 April 2016}}{{third-party inline|date=April 2016}}</ref>{{third-party inline|date=April 2016}} According to him and [[L. Todd Rose]], the science of the individual "relies on dynamic systems theory rather than group statistics. Its research methodology is characterized by 'analyze, then aggregate' ... rather than 'aggregate, then analyze'. ... The field obtained its theoretical foundations with the publication of a 2004 paper, 'A Manifesto on Psychology as Idiographic Science: Bringing the Person Back Into Scientific Psychology, This Time Forever,' written by one of the pioneers of the new science, Peter Molenaar."<ref name="coa">{{cite journal|url=http://chronicle.com/article/The-Faulty-Foundation-of/234905/|title=The Faulty Foundation of American Colleges|author=Todd Rose and Ogi Ogas|date=January 17, 2016|journal=The Chronicle of Higher Education}}</ref>

Ogas is the Project Head for the Individual Mastery Project in the Harvard Graduate School of Education,<ref name="wp" /><ref name="har" /> which ''The Washington Post'' has described as "aimed at understanding the development of individual excellence."<ref name="wp" />

==Written works==
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===''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.<ref name = VaseyAbild13>{{cite journal |last1= Vasey |first1= Paul |last2= Abild |first2= Miranda |year= 2013 |title= A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships |journal= Archives of Sexual Behavior |volume= 421 |issue= 6 |pages= 1101–1103|doi= 10.1007/s10508-013-0170-5|s2cid= 146627306 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Hummel|first1= Anna|last2= Shackelford|first2= Todd|date=2013 |title= What Our Sexy Past Reveals About Our Erotic Present | url= http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/EP11238242.pdf |journal= Evolutionary Psychology |volume= 11 |issue= 1 |pages= 238–242 |doi= 10.1177/147470491301100120|s2cid= 147703521|access-date= March 28, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |access-date = March 28, 2014 |last = McLellan |first = Diana |title = "A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire" by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam |work = The Washington Post |date = July 15, 2011 |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/a-billion-wicked-thoughts-what-the-worlds-largest-experiment-reveals-about-human-desire-by-ogi-ogas-and-sai-gaddam/2011/06/13/gIQALKOqEI_story.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |access-date = March 28, 2014 |last = Landau |first = Elizabeth |title = Inside women's sexual brains, preferences and porn |work = CNN.com |date = May 9, 2011 |url = http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/09/inside-womens-sexual-brains-preferences-and-porn/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |access-date = March 28, 2014 |last = Bennett |first = Jessica |title = Surfing for Sex: What Does It Reveal About Desire? |work = Newsweek |date = April 24, 2011 |url = http://www.newsweek.com/surfing-sex-what-does-it-reveal-about-desire-66637 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |access-date = March 28, 2014 |last = Szalavitz |first = Maia |title = Q&A: The Researchers Who Analyzed All the Porn on the Internet |journal = Time |date = May 19, 2011 |url = http://healthland.time.com/2011/05/19/mind-reading-the-researchers-who-analyzed-all-the-porn-on-the-internet/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |access-date = March 28, 2014 |last = Schaub |first = Michael |title = Insane Science: 5 New Books That Explain The Brain |work = NPR |date = June 7, 2011 |url = https://www.npr.org/2011/07/14/136896426/insane-science-5-new-books-that-explain-the-brain }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |access-date = March 28, 2014 |last = Kennedy |first = Brendan |title = What we want when nobody's watching? |work = The Toronto Star |date = May 10, 2011 |url = https://www.thestar.com/life/2011/05/10/what_we_want_when_nobodys_watching.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |access-date = March 28, 2014 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->  |title = Kirkus Review |work = Kirkus Reviews |date = February 23, 2011 |url = https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ogi-ogas/billion-wicked-thoughts/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |access-date = March 28, 2014 |last = Yang |first = Wesley |title = Sex, Lies and Data Mining |work = The New York Times |date = July 29, 2011 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/books/review/a-billion-wicked-thoughts-by-ogi-ogas-and-sai-gaddam-book-review.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 }}</ref>

===Other contributions===

====''Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry''====
Ogas is listed as a contributor to [[Jeffrey Lieberman]]'s ''Shrinks''<ref>Little, Brown and Company, 2015, {{ISBN|9780316278867}}</ref>{{full citation needed|date=April 2016}}.<ref>The authorship is listed as "Jeffrey Lieberman, ''with'' Ogi Ogas."</ref><ref>Lieberman is former president of the American Psychiatric Association and current{{when|date=April 2016}} chair of the Columbia Department of psychiatry.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}</ref> As advertising prose from the Hatchett Books Group describes it, the book:

{{quote|traces the field from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science through its adolescence as a cult of "shrinks" to its late blooming maturity—beginning after World War II—as a science-driven profession that saves lives ... [including] ... case studies and portraits of the professionals of the field—from Sigmund Freud to Eric Kandel ...<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jeffrey-a-lieberman-md/shrinks/9781478979654/|title=Shrinks|work=hachettebookgroup.com|access-date=7 April 2016}}</ref> }}

''Shrinks'' received a starred review in Kirkus,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jeffrey-lieberman/shrinks/|title=SHRINKS|author=Jeffrey A. Lieberman|work=Kirkus Reviews|access-date=7 April 2016}}</ref> was a ''New York Times Book Review'' Editors' Choice,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/books/review/editors-choice.html|title=Editors' Choice|date=5 April 2015|work=The New York Times|access-date=7 April 2016}}</ref> and was longlisted for the PEN/E.O.Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pen.org/2016-pen-literary-awards-longlists|title=2016 PEN Literary Awards Longlists|date=December 2015|work=pen.org|access-date=7 April 2016}}</ref>

==Game show appearances==
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|- style=text-align:center; bgcolor="CFB53B"
| colspan=2| <span style="color:white;">'''$1 Million (15 of 15) - No Time Limit</span>
|- style=text-align:center; bgcolor="00008B"
| colspan=2| <span style="color:white;">'''Which of these ships was not one of the three taken over by colonists during the Boston Tea Party?'''</span>
|- style=text-align:left; bgcolor="00008B"
|width="50%"|<span style="color:orange;">'''• A:'''</span>  <span style="color:white;">Eleanor</span>
|style=text-align:left; bgcolor="00008B"|<span style="color:#FFA500;">'''• B:'''</span> <span style="color:white;">Dartmouth</span>
|- style=text-align:left; bgcolor="00008B"
|<span style="color:orange;">'''• C:'''</span> <span style="color:white;">Beaver</span>
|style=text-align:left; bgcolor="green"|<span style="color:Black;">'''• D:'''</span>  <span style="color:white;">William</span>
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| colspan=2| Ogas's $1,000,000 question
|}
Ogas won $500,000 on an episode of ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (US game show)|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire]]'' that aired on November 8, 2006, using his cognitive science research to guide his game strategy.<ref name="or"/><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2006/11/11/the_decider/|journal=[[Boston Globe]]|date=November 11, 2006|title=The Decider|last1=Ogas|first1=Ogi}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{citation|title=OK, Ogi! Waltham man wins $500K on game show|journal=[[Boston Globe]]|date=November 8, 2006|url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/regional_editions/globe_west/west/2006/11/waltham_man_may.html}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/who_wants_to_be_a_cognitive_neuroscientist_millionaire/|journal=[[Seed Magazine]]|date=November 9, 2006|title=Who Wants To Be A Cognitive Scientist Millionaire? A Researcher Uses His Understanding Of The Human Brain To Advance On A Popular Quiz Show}}</ref> Since playing, he has appeared 22 times as the syndicated show's "Ask The Expert" Lifeline.

Ogas was also a contestant on ''[[Grand Slam (US game show)|Grand Slam]]'', which aired in August and September 2007.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts_entertainment/articles/the_gonz_show_ogi_ogas/|journal=[[Boston Magazine]]|title=The Gonz Show: Ogi Ogas|date=October 2007|first=John|last=Gonzalez}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{citation |url=//grandslamshow.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=81&sid=12f6c95e1a40adce39a0a7372aeded48 |title=GrandSlamShow.com discussion boards |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111211242/http://grandslamshow.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=81&sid=12f6c95e1a40adce39a0a7372aeded48 |archive-date=November 11, 2007 }}</ref> 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 (game show)|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.

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{official website|http://www.billionwickedthoughts.com/index.html}}

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