Talk about intelligence testing.......
i wonder if this is true. if so ....
WHY ARE WE NOT SURPRISED????
Presidential Iqs - As if we didn't already know...
President Bush Ranks Lowest IQ in 50 Years of US Presidents
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 its research to the educational
community on each new president, which includes the famous "IQ" report
among others.
There have been twelve presidents over the past 50 years, from F.D.
Roosevelt to G.W. Bush, who were rated based on scholarly achievements,
writings that they produced without aid of staff, their ability to speak
with clarity, and several other psychological factors, which were then
scored using 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 (R)
174 .. John F. Kennedy (D)
126 .. Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
155.. Richard M. Nixon (R)
121 .. Gerald Ford (R)
175 .. James E. Carter (D)
105 .. Ronald Reagan (R)
098 .. George Bush (R)
182 .. William J. Clinton (D)
091 .. George W. Bush (R)
In IQ order:
182 .. William J. Clinton (D)
175 .. James E. Carter (D)
174 .. John F. Kennedy (D)
155 .. Richard M. Nixon (R)
147 .. Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
132 .. Harry Truman (D)
126 .. Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
122 .. Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
121 .. Gerald Ford (R)
105 .. Ronald Reagan (R)
098 ..George Bush (R)
091 .. George W. Bush (R)
The six Republican presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of
115.5, with President Nixon having the highest at 155. President G.W.
Bush rated the lowest of all the Republicans with an IQ of 91. The six
Democrat presidents had IQs with an average of 156, with President
Clinton having the highest IQ, at 182. President Lyndon B. Johnson was
rated the lowest of all the Democrats with an IQ of 126. No president other
than Carter (D) has released his actual IQ, 176.
Among comments made concerning the specific testing of President GW Bush,
his low ratings are due to his apparently difficult command of the
English language in public statements, his limited use of vocabulary
(6,500 words for Bush versus an average of 11,000 words for other
presidents), his lack of scholarly achievements other than a basic MBA,
and an absence of any body of work which could be studied on an
intellectual basis.
The complete report documents the methods and procedures used to arrive at
these ratings, including depth of sentence structure and voice stress
confidence analysis. "All the Presidents prior to George W. Bush had a
least one book under their belt, and most had written several white papers
during their education or early careers. Not so with President Bush," Dr.
Lovenstein said. "He has no published works or writings, which made it more
difficult to arrive at an assessment. We relied more heavily on
transcripts of his unscripted public speaking."
The Lovenstein Institute of Scranton Pennsylvania think tank includes high
caliber historians, psychiatrists, sociologists, scientists in human
behavior, and psychologists. Among their ranks are Dr. Werner R.
Lovenstein, world-renowned sociologist, and Professor Patricia F.
Dilliams, a world-respected psychiatrist.
This study was commissioned on February 13, 2001 and released on July 9,
2001 to subscribing member universities and organizations within the
educational community.
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