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To: Poet who wrote (495)	8/22/2001 10:09:35 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 51713

Poet have you SEEN this? I thought it was hilarious. I never would have seen it if someone hadn't posted it as part of an apologia, trying to explain the fact that their man finished last. :-) If he'd finished in a more respectable position they wouldn't have felt the need to try to defend him. I've no idea of the legitimacy of the work (although I am pleased to see Truman finish so high- he was one of my favorite 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 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.