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To: Prophet who wrote (5630)	11/15/2002 1:04:00 AM
From: yu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10157

I am not questioning your source but it is hard to believe the Bushes are so low. I heard IQ is directly related to your performance on SAT. Is it possible to get into Yale with very poor SAT scores? I think unlikely. And the top 3 are all Democrats, the bottom 3 are all republicans. Hmm...

To: Prophet who wrote (5630)	11/15/2002 4:21:42 AM
From: HairBall	Respond to of 10157

Prophet: I don't know your source, but you have been duped into spreading the hoax, as have many. Be sure to read the comments at the bottom... urbanlegends.about.com LG

To: Prophet who wrote (5630)	11/15/2002 3:13:25 PM
From: eddieww	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10157

>OT< First of all, these numbers are speculative, and not the result of any real IQ tests. I've never heard of the Swanson-Crain methodology, but any inferences based even partially on speech patterns and vocabulary are on very shaky ground. Another point, especially regarding Carter where a specific result from a normed test was available, is that different tests have different values. In other words, a CMM result of 150 may correspond to a Wechsler value of 135. All of them are different as soon as you move away from the normed average of 100, which is the common value amongst IQ tests for the average. The only valuable way to look at an individual's IQ is to see where they fall on a percentile basis unless everyone takes exactly the same test. That's why groups like Mensa, Intertel, 999, and ISPE rely only on percentile rankings. I didn't find out how I scored because they require my e-mail address. I get very little spam because I'm very stingy with that. These sorts of things are always fun, but I'm not too sure that IQ is a good predictor of success in trading. In fact, I have some anecdotal evidence that a high IQ percentile ranking may actually be a detriment. -g- "When you don't know anything, imagining you know something certainly does cheer you up. It's the way of the optimist." ~Thomas Perry, from "Big Fish"