Maria,
A colleague of mine was sent this the other day, and discovered a day later
that it is contrived - a hoax- (I'm not sure of her sources). Standardised
testing taking a new route!!
Phil
It's still good for a laugh...
At 19:10 22/2/03 -0800, you wrote:
>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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