[Richard Wallace]

Sometimes more that one person's name is used as a unit for the same physical quantity. Gauss is a common unit of magnetic flux density; the earth's magnetic field induces a flux density of 0.3 to 0.6 Gauss depending on where you measure it (e.g., higher in northern Canada, lower in central Africa). Another common unit for magnetic flux density is the Tesla, equal to 10,000 Gauss. The strongest rare-earth permanent magnets have a residual induction of about 1.2 Tesla, or 25,000 times the flux density due to earth's magnetic field.

So should we infer anything about Tesla and Gauss based on the relative size of the flux density units that bear their names? Tesla was arguably the most important inventor of the twentieth century (I think it would be hard to top polyphase AC electrical distribution and its associated electric machinery for impact on society) while Gauss was arguably the most important mathematician of the 19th century.

Anyway, if Ken is to have a unit of stupidity named for him, then I suggest we will need a much larger unit named for someone else.