 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:
| 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 R. Ford (R) |
| 176 | James E. Carter (D) |
| 105 | Ronald W. Reagan (R) |
| 98 | George H. W. Bush (R) |
| 182 | William J. Clinton (D) |
| 91 | George W. Bush (R) |
The
six Republican presidents of the past 60 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.
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Hoax Alert
Written by headtale on 2007-03-10 18:42:13
Hey there,
Decided to check out the site after today's workshop (excellent, by the way.)
Just wanted to let you know that this "news release" is a long standing Internet hoax. Not sure on your policies for corrections/changes but I'd suggest that it should probably be removed completely from ActUpInSask as it doesn't reflect well on the site to post a story like this as news.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/lovenstein.html |
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