studies show who the dumbest president is....

[thebigmansentme]

President Bush Ranks Lowest IQ in 50 Years of US 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 its research to the educational community on each new president, which
includes the famous "IQ" report among others. There have been twelve presidents over the past 50 years,
from F.D. Roosevelt to G.W. Bush, who were rated based on scholarly achievements, writings that they produced
without aid of staff, their ability to speak with clarity, and several other psychological factors,
which were then scored using the Swanson/Crain system of intelligence ranking.
The study determined the following IQs of each president as accurate to within five percentage
points:

In order by presidential term:


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 Bush (R)
182 .. William J. Clinton (D)
091 .. George W. Bush (R)


In IQ order:


182 .. William J. Clinton (D)
175 .. James E. Carter (D)
174 .. John F. Kennedy (D)
155 .. Richard M. Nixon (R)
147 .. Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
132 .. Harry Truman (D)
126 .. Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
122 .. Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
121 .. Gerald Ford (R)
105 .. Ronald Reagan (R)
098 ..George Bush (R)
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 at 155. President G.W. Bush 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 are due to his apparently difficult command of 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, which made it more difficult to arrive at an assessment. We
relied 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.

[Nomad559]

1. Urban Legend

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm

[Piperay]

2. Very interesting

all the repugs with the exception of Nixon are at the very bottom and the Democrats are at the top. :-)

[SupportRapeVictims]

3. We don't need to resort to hoaxes

Because it really hurts us and it detracts from real issues.

[thebigmansentme]

4. lol

yeah, apparently that was bs. i was not really sure what the normal IQ score was, but 180 seems kind of high in retrospect, even for clinton. here is a more accurate article

http://www.csbsju.edu/uspp/Election/bush011401.htm

at least i scored better than bush on SATs :)

[achtung_circus]

5. "normal" IQ is allegedly 100

and individual scores are indexed to that base. Distribution is bell-curve like, although skewed to the left as life seems to diminish our intelligence.

Really, though accidents and fetal alcohol syndrome Etc, Etc rarely increase our intelligence, hence the skew to the left (no inferences drawn).

In the real world "normal" is a setting on the dishwasher and the washing machine.

[demosincebirth]

7. Evidently, you haven't been watching press conferences.

[rock]

6. The hoax works because

it's so believable.