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 G. 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.
2006-06-30 03:23:55 · 14 answers · asked by Lou 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
WASHINGTON --In a published report, the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, Pennsylvania has detailed 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 60 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:
2006-06-30 03:31:06 · update #1
Link:
www.lovenstein.org/report
2006-06-30 03:56:48 · update #2
91 is at the low end and he would be eligible for educational services
70 is borderline retarded!!
Gores was around 140,
Clinton had a 180 IQ. Well he was a Rhodes scholar
Both Bush's are below 100, the closest to them was Gerald for with 121. Damn, my IQ beats those 3 and Eisenhowers.
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 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
How did he get into Harvard and Yale someone asked. Now Think for just one second!!
Bush was admitted to Harvard Business after graduating from Yale with a C-!! Do you think I could get into Harvard with a C-?
Do you think I could get into Harvard without a GPA of at least 3.8?
You can't even GRADUATE with a BSN without a 3.0!
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New York Times, Sunday January 12, 2003
President Bush Has Lowest IQ of all Presidents of past 50 Years
(AP) In a report published Friday, 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
132 .. Harry Truman
122 .. Dwight D. Eisenhower
174 .. John F. Kennedy
126 .. Lyndon B. Johnson
155 .. Richard M. Nixon
121 .. Gerald Ford
175 .. James E. Carter
105 .. Ronald Reagan
098 .. George HW Bush
182 .. William J. Clinton
091 .. George W. Bush
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.
2006-06-30 03:35:54 · answer #1 · answered by cantcu 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
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.
YOu even stated in the question that Carter was the only president to disclose his actual IQ... ummm I take it the other president's IQ are just made up?
2006-06-30 04:11:50 · answer #2 · answered by alexg114 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fraud. Hoax. Urban Legend.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm
Claim: According to a study by the Lovenstein Institute, President Bush has the lowest IQ of all presidents of past 50 years.
Status: False.
Origins: No, this isn't a real news report, nor does it describe a real study. There isn't a "Lovenstein Institute" in Scranton, Pennsylvania (or anywhere else in the USA), nor do any of the people quoted in the story exist, because this is just another spoof that was taken too seriously.
The article quoted above began circulating on the Internet during the summer of 2001. In furtherance of the hoax, later that year pranksters thought to register www.lovenstein.org and erecting a web site around it in an attempt to fool people into thinking there really was such an institute.
The piece is simply a political jibe, made obvious by its ranking all the Democratic presidents of the last several decades as having high (even exceptionally high) IQs — note that Bill Clinton's IQ is listed as being exactly twice George W. Bush's — while ranking all the Republican presidents from the same time frame as average to moderate in intelligence, with the current president and his father assigned below-average figures placing them at the very bottom of the list. (President Nixon is the sole exception, presumably because his reputation is still so tarnished that not even a high IQ measurement can yet redeem him in the court of public opinion.)
[Some noticeable errors: Although the study includes Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died in office in 1945, the report is described as covering presidents in office "over the past 50 years." Also not true is the claim that "all the Presidents prior to George W. Bush had a least one book under their belt" — some of them authored no books until after becoming president, and George W. Bush did have a book to his credit before being elected president, 1999's A Charge to Keep. Plus, if there's a "Swanson/Crain" system for ranking intelligence, nobody else seems to have heard of it.]
In any case, IQ is a dodgy enough concept even when measured by tests designed for the purpose — trying to guess not just relative rankings but specific IQ scores based solely on writings and speeches is bound to be error-prone. Based on President George H. Bush's extemporaneous speech-making, for example, he couldn't "speak with clarity" to save his life, but he was clearly far more intelligent than the insultingly low IQ assigned to him above. And a recent article reports President Kennedy's IQ as 119, far below the genius-level 174 ascribed to him here.
Update: As obvious as this joke was, at least two publications were taken in by it: The [London] Guardian and the New Zealand Southland Times. Both ran the "Presidential I.Q." tale as a factual item (on 19 July and 7 August 2001 respectively). The Associated Press publicized The Guardian's error on 12 August, moving The Guardian to post a retraction on 14 August, and U.S. News & World Report clearly reported the I.Q. item as a hoax on 20 August, 2001.
Gary Trudeau's 26 August 2001 Doonesbury comic strip features an invisible George W. Bush being told about his ranking on the presidential I.Q. ladder by an underling. (This strip appeared on the Doonesbury web site on 2 September 2001).
Last updated: 15 July 2004
2006-07-03 11:01:45 · answer #3 · answered by A B 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Iq Of Presidents
2016-12-18 03:36:41 · answer #4 · answered by veloso 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Presidents Iq
2016-10-01 02:40:30 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds made up to me. Bush would not disclose his IQ to the world! It will undermine his leadership.
What does IQ of the president matter anyway? Do you think that George Bush is the one who makes the decisions. How can he? This world is enormously complex and it impossible for one person, even a clever one, to decide the fate of an entire country, especially a G7 country like America. The guy doesn't even write his own speeches.
Political parties in most democratic countries work by electing the candidate with the most charisma. Bush is merely the face of the republican party.
2006-06-30 08:37:22 · answer #6 · answered by MrSandman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is funny, because it is basically fictional in nature. They even admit that it is based on a limited set of data. Anybody who understands the scientific method and the absolute need for a statistically significant quantity of data would scoff at this nonsense.
It is also funny because 'smart' Jimmy Carter, who pronounces nuclear as 'nucular', was the worst president of the 20th century, if not all time. And incompetent boob, who has embraced and supported every single despot in the world, from Kim Jong Il to Castro to Arafat to Chavez. Some 'genius'.
Clinton, another Democrat mediocrity, hardly accomplished anything, except the largest tax increase, and finally signing the Republican welfare reform bill into law. He inherited a booming economy from Bush 41, and left Bush 43 with a recession. He was also accused of rape, and is a serial sexual predator. So much for this 'genius'.
It's amazing how much bullshit people will accept as truth as long as it fits their beliefs.
2006-06-30 03:53:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bush was not a great speaker but he was quite intelligent. Much more so than people give him credit for. He never bragged about his achievements but preferred to allow people to underestimate him. At a minimum I hope you will test your own assumptions and thinking about our former President. I offer a few questions to help that process. •Upon what do you base your view of President Bush’s intellect? How much is it shaped by the conventional wisdom about him? How much by verbal miscues highlighted by the press? •Do you discount your estimate of his intellect because he’s from Texas or because of his accent? Because he’s an athlete and a ranch owner? Because he never advertises that he went to Yale and Harvard? •This is a hard one, for liberals only. Do you assume that he is unintelligent because he made policy choices with which you disagree? If so, your logic may be backwards. “I disagree with choice X that President Bush made. No intelligent person could conclude X, therefore President Bush is unintelligent.” Might it be possible that an intelligent, thoughtful conservative with different values and priorities than your own might have reached a different conclusion than you? Do you really think your policy views derive only from your intellect? And finally, if you base your view of President Bush’s intellect on a public image and caricature shaped by late night comedians, op-ed writers, TV pundits, and Twitter, is that a smart thing for you to do?
2016-03-26 22:58:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh! Facts, how unpatriotic of you.
How did he get into Harvard & Yale if he has an IQ of the mentally handicapped? Legacy preference at it's finest?
D student that didn't even earn the Ds?
You know what, stupidity is the in thing at the moment so sit back and enjoy the humor. More idiots are on their way.
2006-06-30 03:36:43 · answer #9 · answered by Subterfuge 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Provide the link and the source man!
2006-06-30 03:35:55 · answer #10 · answered by lostinromania 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋