Irish Examiner view: Sean Connery - a real charmer

Sean Connery's Richter scale 10 charm would guarantee him comparable success today.

Humans are good at measuring and counting. We have many ways of defining quantity, force, presence, loudness and brightness too. 

Henri Becquerel gave us a way to measure radioactivity, Blaise Pascal showed us how to measure pressure, and Irish hydrographer Francis Beaufort — later Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort — gave us criteria to measure wind in 1805. Yet, there is no scale to measure that most powerful human force: Charm.