Subject: [EMMAS] FW: Presidential IQ's
From: Eva Brunner 
Date: 6 Feb 2003 09:37:11 -0600

A Thousand Points of Light and We get the Dim Bulb

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:

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.

This study was commissioned on February 13, 2001 and released on July 9,
2001 to subscribing member universities and organizations within the
educational community.

 

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