"Bush joked yesterday that his life would be easier if he were a dictator."
Karl Rove functions as Bush's brain some say. Maybe, Rove will explain Bush's statement.
If Rove wasn't aware of what Bush was going to say, then you might interpret Bush's silly remark
in context of the following report.
Report: President Bush Has Lowest IQ of all Presidents of past 50 Years
University Notes
Contributors: Cristina L. Borenstein, Lana Taamar
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 (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 HW Bush (R)
182 William J. Clinton (D)
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 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. |
