Presidential Smarts

A think tank called The Lovenstein Institute recently spent four month determining president George W. Bush's I.Q.  They have done this for every president since 1973 as well as some from before that.  They use what is available to the public in the form of speeches written without the aid of staff, written material (articles and books), and vocabulary size, which they then use to determine I.Q. using a Swanson/Crain test. Republican Presidents of the last 60 have averaged I.Q.'s of 115.5, while Democrats have averaged 156.  Jimmy Carter was the only one to divulge his real I.Q., 176, which is one point off from the one determined by the institute, 175.

Read the whole thing for yourself here.

Listed in order, here are the presidential I.Q.'s:

182 - Bill Clinton
176-  Jimmy Carter
174-  John F. Kennedy
155-  Richard M. Nixon
147-  Franklin D. Roosevelt
132-  Harry Truman
126-  Lyndon B. Johnson
122-  Dwight D. Eisenhower
121-  Gerald Ford
105-  Ronald Reagan
  98-  George H.W. Bush
  91-  George W. Bush

This was sent to me by a friend.

Somewhat sadly, the whole thing appears to be a hoax, though it has gotten widespread dissemination via email and the net, and people seem to find it credible.

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