JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT I.Q IS NOT EVERYTHING..
>
> A report published by 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:
>
> 1. Writings that they produced without aid of staff
>
> 2. 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.
>
> In order by presidential term:
>
> Franklin Delano Roosevelt [D] 142,
> Harry S Truman [D] 132,
> Dwight David Eisenhower [R] 122
> John Fitzgerald Kennedy [D] 174,
> Lyndon Baines Johnson [D] 126,
> Richard Milhous Nixon [R] 155,
> Gerald R. Ford [R] 121,
> James Earle Carter [D] 175,
> Ronald Wilson Reagan [R] 105
> George Herbert Walker Bush [R] 98,
> William Jefferson Clinton [D] 182,
> George Walker Bush [R] 91
>
> In order of IQ rating:
>
> 182 ... William Jefferson Clinton [D]
> 175 ... James Earle Carter [D]
> 174 ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy [D]
> 155 ... Richard Milhous Nixon [R]
> 147 ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt [D]
> 132 ... Harry S. Truman [D]
> 126 ... Lyndon Baines Johnson [D]
> 122 ... Dwight David Eisenhower [R]
> 121 ... Gerald R. Ford [R]
> 105 ... Ronald Wilson Reagan [R]
> 098 ... George Herbert Walker Bush [R]
> 091 ... George Walker 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 George W.
> Bush rated the lowest of all the Republicans with an IQ of 91.
>
> The six Democratic presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ 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 G. W.
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.
>
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