From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Aug 05 2001 - 15:45:11 MDT
Figured we could use a little humor right about now. ^_^
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> >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
> >>>>>its 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.
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