Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Castle -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (4103)	11/16/2004 11:26:03 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7936

You also miss the fact that the correlation between extremely high IQ and being a successful leader is at best a moderate one, it isn't a strong one. There has only been 43 Presidents of the United States. You can't draw any conclusions based on statistics of such small sample size. IQ is just one component. Surely you can see a low IQ is not good. I'm suggesting that in the future the bar is raised. A low IQ has to be a disqualifier. Poor academics should be another. Low IQ and poor academic preparation should at least set off alarms. Standards for future President should begin with a high IQ and good academic preoparation. We require that of Doctors and lawyers. A good doctor has to have a high IQ, terific academic preparation, and terrific bedside manners in addition to high marks in integrity and other personality traits. If we have such high standards for the thousands of our doctors, why can't we have very, very high standards for our one and only President?