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7-10-01 12:32 PM CST
University Notes
Contributors: Cristina L. Borenstein, Lana Taamar
Report: President Bush Has Lowest IQ of
all Presidents of past 50 Years
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 there 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 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.
About the authors: Cristina L.
Borenstein and Lana Taamar are both recently off the campaign
trail where they served as receptionists for the Pennsylvania
chapter of Gore For President, Inc., and have co-written the
eBook Gore Got Gored. Together they publish the The
Pennsylvania Court Observer which has a circulation of 5.
Dr. Lovenstein lives in a mobile home in Scranton, Pennsylvania
with his long time companion Patricia F. Dilliams. When the two
are not publishing reports for their Lovenstein Institute, they
run an internet business www.collegedegreesforsale.com [an error occurred while processing this directive]
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