he Pennsylvania Court Observer
7-10-01 12:32 PM CST
University Notes
Contributors: Cristina L. Borenstein, Lana Taamar

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Report: President Bush Has Lowest IQ of all Presidents of past 50
Years

If late night TV comedy is an indicator, then there has never been as

widespread a perception that a president is not intellectually qualified for

the position he holds as there is with President GW Bush.

In a report published Monday, the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton,
Pennsylvania detailed its findings of a four month study of the intelligence

quotient of President George W. Bush. Since 1973, the Lovenstein Institute
has published it's research to the education community on each new
president, which includes the famous "IQ" report among others.

According to statements in the report, there have been twelve
presidents over the past 50 years, from F. D. Roosevelt to G. W. Bush who
were all rated based on scholarly achievements, writings that they alone
produced without aid of staff, their ability to speak with clarity, and
several other psychological factors which were then scored in the
Swanson/Crain system of intelligence ranking.

The study determined the following IQs of each president as accurate
to within five percentage points:

147 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
132 Harry Truman (D)
122 Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

how was G W Bush elected. He is so dumb. I think that he is an embarrassment to the USA.

 

This was hysterical! I do smell a lock on this thread coming very very soon though...

 

This was written by two Gorebots who worked the the PA Gork Campaign

 

Lower the better. I know a few MENSA members and those people are friggin nuts. The world would be better off without them.

People with high IQs should never be put in power. They are just too damn evil. They always seem to know what is best for you.

I'm in favor of a presidential lottery. (reduce taxes even further) Buy a ticket and the winner gets to be in charge for a month. At the end of the month they get to remove two people from congress and ban them from elected office for life.

I'd play!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Eze8199
[B]how was G W Bush elected.

 

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Of course his would be lower than his dad's.

But if Clinton was that smart he never would have been caught

Take it with a grain of salt.


ITSJUSTACAR

 

Moderators, do you remember what you've said in the past about political threads?

 

well, George Bush is not the brightest of our presidents, that's a safe bet. But rating his IQ on the basis of "voice stress confidence analysis" seems suspect- I'd like to see the data. Reagan was called the "Great Communicator",and listening to his responses in his debates gave me a newfound appreciation for how good he was at public speaking, yet I percieve him as one of our least shall we say "nuanced" presidential intellects. Were reviewers "blinded' as to source, what are interobserver differences in scoring, etc?
Vocabulary does correlate fairly well with overall IQ, but I don't know if public speech is a fair measure of vocabulary.
Any Clinical psch types out there care to comment?

And giving GHW a two digit IQ- is that fair? He seemed brighter than the average, regardless of one's politics. I mean, give me a break- the average person in this country is not a college grad (although abscence of such a degree does not imply a lack of intellegence, presence of one from a reputable institution implies a minimal level of academic skills, which likely give one a 3 digit IQ), and Bush the elder had to take the equivalent of IQ tests to get into pilot training- I doubt the WW2 Navy accepted too many candidates who scored BELOW the mean for all comers- which is what a 2 digit IQ implies.
josh, this is still fun, I'm just not sure it is fair. Personally, I don't think GW is bright, and I disagree with many of his policies, but for academicians to publish stuff such as this, well, they'd better have their methodology correct. will you post a link to the report when it comes out?