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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 817283" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #004080">George W. Bush Low Intelligence Myth Debunked</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><strong>August 6, 2001</strong></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Debunked: "Lovenstein Institute" report that George W. Bush "has lowest IQ of all presidents of past 50 years" </span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Additional investigation revealed that the presidential IQ report ("Report: President Bush has lowest IQ of all presidents of past 50 years") attributed to the (fictitious) Lovenstein Institute is a hoax, debunked July 18, 2001 by snopes.com, an urban legends website (click here to read the snopes.com exposé; click here to read the original report, published in the fictitious "<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>Pennsylvania Court Observer."</strong>In a Lexis-Nexis search, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I <strong>found </strong>the hoax </span>reported as factual information in at least four foreign newspapers: <em>Guardian</em> ("Diary" by Matthew Norman, July 19, 2001), <em>The Express</em> (<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">"By George he's the dimmest," </span>July 20, 2001<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">, p. 8, no </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">byline</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px">), the <em>Scottish Daily Record</em> ("Dumbya's dumb day" by <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Alexandra Williams, </span>July 20, 2001<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">, p. 2</span>), and </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080"><em>Bilt Zeitung </em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">("</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px">B</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">ush dümmster Präsident seit 1945 -- IQ nur 91,<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">" Aug. 1, 2001, no byline). </span></span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Aside from the factual errors noted in snopes.com's debunking, the story is transparently bogus, given that JFK (IQ reportedly 174) actually tested at 119 (though admittedly on the relatively crude Otis test) and Nixon (IQ reportedly 155), actually tested nearly a full standard deviation lower, at 143, according to the historical record. Given his academic record, Bill Clinton (IQ reportedly 182) probably has an IQ quite similar to that of Al Gore (who tested at 134, according to the public record). </span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">In short, our presidents aren't nearly as smart as the bogus Lovenstein report would have us believe. [Intellectuals tend to be mediocre politicians who have great difficulty faking connectedness voters.] Given that intelligence tests are standardized with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, the average Democratic president, with a "Lovenstein IQ" of 156 (i.e., +3.7 SD) would be in the top one-hundredth of one percent under the bell curve -- that is, the top 10,000th relative to the general population in intellectual ability). Moreover, it is unlikely that there would be a gap of nearly three standard deviations between the IQs of Democratic ("Lovenstein IQ" = 156) and Republican ("Lovenstein IQ" = 115.5) presidents.</span></span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 817283, member: 1246"] [CENTER][COLOR=#004080]George W. Bush Low Intelligence Myth Debunked[/COLOR][/CENTER] [COLOR=#000080][B]August 6, 2001[/B][/COLOR] [B][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Debunked: "Lovenstein Institute" report that George W. Bush "has lowest IQ of all presidents of past 50 years" [/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Additional investigation revealed that the presidential IQ report ("Report: President Bush has lowest IQ of all presidents of past 50 years") attributed to the (fictitious) Lovenstein Institute is a hoax, debunked July 18, 2001 by snopes.com, an urban legends website (click here to read the snopes.com exposé; click here to read the original report, published in the fictitious "[FONT=Times New Roman][B]Pennsylvania Court Observer."[/B]In a Lexis-Nexis search, [FONT=Times New Roman]I [B]found [/B]the hoax [/FONT]reported as factual information in at least four foreign newspapers: [I]Guardian[/I] ("Diary" by Matthew Norman, July 19, 2001), [I]The Express[/I] ([FONT=Times New Roman]"By George he's the dimmest," [/FONT]July 20, 2001[FONT=Times New Roman], p. 8, no [/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000080][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]byline[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3]), the [I]Scottish Daily Record[/I] ("Dumbya's dumb day" by [FONT=Times New Roman]Alexandra Williams, [/FONT]July 20, 2001[FONT=Times New Roman], p. 2[/FONT]), and [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=#000080][I]Bilt Zeitung [/I][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]("[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3]B[/SIZE][/COLOR][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]ush dümmster Präsident seit 1945 -- IQ nur 91,[FONT=Times New Roman]" Aug. 1, 2001, no byline). [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Aside from the factual errors noted in snopes.com's debunking, the story is transparently bogus, given that JFK (IQ reportedly 174) actually tested at 119 (though admittedly on the relatively crude Otis test) and Nixon (IQ reportedly 155), actually tested nearly a full standard deviation lower, at 143, according to the historical record. Given his academic record, Bill Clinton (IQ reportedly 182) probably has an IQ quite similar to that of Al Gore (who tested at 134, according to the public record). In short, our presidents aren't nearly as smart as the bogus Lovenstein report would have us believe. [Intellectuals tend to be mediocre politicians who have great difficulty faking connectedness voters.] Given that intelligence tests are standardized with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, the average Democratic president, with a "Lovenstein IQ" of 156 (i.e., +3.7 SD) would be in the top one-hundredth of one percent under the bell curve -- that is, the top 10,000th relative to the general population in intellectual ability). Moreover, it is unlikely that there would be a gap of nearly three standard deviations between the IQs of Democratic ("Lovenstein IQ" = 156) and Republican ("Lovenstein IQ" = 115.5) presidents.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [/QUOTE]
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