It has been confirmed

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If late night TV comedy is an indicator, then there has never been as widespread a perception that a president is not intellectually qualified for the position he holds as here is with President GW Bush.

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 George 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 has released his actual IQ, 176.

Among comments made concerning the specific testing of President George W. 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.

-- From the Pennsylvania Court Reporter July 10, 2001 University Notes Contributors: Cristina L. Borenstein, Lana Taamar

Comments

LOL!

[shoo.livejournal.com]

My two favorite Presidents where ranked the highest...yay!

[cherie.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting these very revealing results. Of course, I didn't need an IQ test to tell me this prez is lacking in some very fundamental intellectual abilities, but then again you wonder what the IQ of his standard supporter must be.

Very, very interesting.

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[whorlpool.livejournal.com]

IQ tests are bullshit, though. The whole idea of an intelligent quotient is bullshit.

I'd argue that anyone who's capable of becoming President of the United States is a genius. Bush may be a total moron when it comes to most of his job qualifications, but the fact remains that he has one of the most stressful jobs on the planet and he's holding it together pretty well. If it were me, I would have had several meltdowns by now, and my IQ would have nothing to do with it.

I disagree with at least 99.9% of Bush's decisions so far. I think he's the biggest nightmare this country has seen since Reagan. But his "IQ" has nothing to do with it. Cheney probably has an incredibly high IQ, and he's making a ton of the decisions. I still hate his fucking guts.

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[i.livejournal.com]

bush a genius? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
the job was handed to him because he had the right name. probably didn't hurt that his daddy was head of the cia and likely had dirt on everyone else. bush deserves no credit at all for his election.

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[whorlpool.livejournal.com]

Underestimating someone you dislike is never a good idea.

Genius comes in many forms.

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[i.livejournal.com]

i didn't say he was stupid, just that he is far from a genius. i don't consider myself one either, even though technically my iq qualifies me. iq is a decent method for comparing the intelligence of people from similar backgrounds, so i might be able to claim that i am more intelligent than he, but that is not the point. i stand by my statement that he had nothing whatever to do with getting elected. all he had to do was show up. the people around him, however, are extremely capable, intelligent, and frightening. i might exaggerate his ineptitude, but i certainly don't underestimate him.

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[whorlpool.livejournal.com]

Let me add this, too.

All of the professional work I've done in the past six years (via teaching and tutoring) has been with people who supposedly have low IQs. I've worked with hundreds of people who have at one time or another been labelled stupid.

None of them were stupid.

The same words being used to describe Bush are PRECISELY the words that elite (mostly Republican) people in this country use over and over and over and over and over to deny all sorts of minorities their rights. IQ is a classist, racist, sexist idea that hurts millions of people every fucking day.

Attacking Bush because of his supposed lack of intelligence is REINFORCING the traditional argument that "stupid" people should remain as second class citizens.

Intelligence isn't so easily measured. In fact, it's not really measurable at all. If you're interested, a good place to start to see this is with "Frames of Mind," by Martin Gardner; it's an early deconstruction of "IQ"; a ton of work has been done since then.

Don't get me wrong: Bush is unqualified for his job. But he's unqualified because his talents lie in other areas, or because it's a fucking difficult job that requires someone of extraordinary abilities (which Bush doesn't have). He's not up to his extremely difficult job. That does NOT make him stupid.

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[i.livejournal.com]

again, "IQ is a classist, racist, sexist idea", but w is a member of the class, race and sex for which it works, and he still comes in mediocre at best. he is president because of his name and $300,000,000.

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[whorlpool.livejournal.com]

Actually, he's president because Al Gore has the charisma of a maggot.

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[i.livejournal.com]

i hear he looks good in his beard, though :)

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[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I think most people who voted for Bush did so because they thought Gore was a liar and/or an environmental extremist. (At least that's those people told me.)

[redthread.livejournal.com]

Yeppers, just confirmation of what I suspected. The man is a dolt!!