This is from The Pennsylvania Court Observer
University Notes
Contributors: Cristina L. Brenstein, Lana Taamar
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 G W 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 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
Editor's Note: This is purported to be an Urban Myth, but President MORON is
still a MORON.