I am the egg head, I'm the Commander, I'm the Decider

[voivod]

Koo-Koo-Kachoo


http://decider.cf.huffingtonpost.com/

[wham bam will rock]

Lowest I.Q. of any American President since the I.Q. test was invented.

'Nuff said!

[ZeoBandit]

Ford will have a field day with this one.

[willy4pres]

Lowest I.Q. of any American President since the I.Q. test was invented.

'Nuff said!

Does he? Im not saying that I would be suprised if he did it's just that I have never heard that before.

[chefcraig]

http://www.lovenstein.org/report/


The Lovenstein Institute
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
1466 days since George Bush declared
"Mission Accomplished in Iraq"

The Presidential IQ Report

WASHINGTON --In a published report, the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, Pennsylvania has detailed 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 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 60 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 (R)
174 John F. Kennedy (D)
126 Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
155 Richard M. Nixon (R)
121 Gerald R. Ford (R)
176 James E. Carter (D)
105 Ronald W. Reagan (R)
98 George H. W. Bush (R)
182 William J. Clinton (D)
91 George W. Bush (R)


The six Republican presidents of the past 60 years had an average IQ of 115.5, with President Nixon having the highest IQ, at 155. President G. W. Bush was 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 were due to his apparent difficulty to command 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, so in many ways that made it more difficult to arrive at an assessment. We had to rely 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 education community.

[voivod]

The Tree Doesn't Fall Far From The Apple...

[chefcraig]

To be fair, several sources claim the "Lovenstein" report to be complete fiction:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors...identialiq.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Presidents_IQ_hoax

[Elwood P.]

No way Clinton's that high. Maybe his wife . . .

[ZORBA5150]

what was the point to this thread?

[vanzefflin]

Oh wow! Another list. Funny how these things are quoted when they add to ones feel good moment. Some of these smart motherfuckers sure seemed to get themselves in an awful lot of stupid trouble.

[FORD]

Sitting in the White house garden talking to the Lord
My thoughts would be busy busy hatching If I only had a brain

I love that fucking song!!

[FORD]

No way Clinton's that high. Maybe his wife . . .

Bill Clinton was extremely intelligent. He just let the wrong head do his thinking a couple of times.

[FORD]

what was the point to this thread?

Your pResident is a moron.

[FORD]

To be fair, several sources claim the "Lovenstein" report to be complete fiction:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors...identialiq.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Presidents_IQ_hoax

Possibly so, but when you look at that list, and consider the level of intelligence displayed by each man in office, I wouldn't say it's too far off. The only one I might dispute is Poppy Bush. While I despise the man, you don't get away with everything he has (since the late 50's) by being stupid.

[Otis5150]

To be fair, several sources claim the "Lovenstein" report to be complete fiction:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors...identialiq.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Presidents_IQ_hoax

As much as I believe that my coffe table has a higher IQ than Bush, I have to agree that the report is BS. The only way you can truly measure someone's IQ is with an actual IQ test.