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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/26/82947.shtml

Pulled from an article on the NY Times...

Since the early days of his first presidential campaign, Democratic hit men and women have challenged George W. Bush on his alleged poor intellect.


The generalization was that sure, Bush might be a folksy, down-home, warm guy but come on – when it comes to brains, he got left behind.

In fact, a phony claim from the non-existent "Lovenstein Institute" which circulated on the Internet in 2001 and was eventually included in leftist Gary Trudeau's "Doonesbury" comic strip pegged the president's I.Q. at 91, the lowest of any modern-day president.


Never mind that the young George W. Bush mastered both Yale and fighter planes, and managed to succeed in a number of business ventures, which included the successful purchase and sale of Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers.


Now, Bush bashers should get ready to wince, moan and groan: The New York Times reports Bush is not only a brainy guy, but may actually be smarter than the other Yale-educated presidential candidate John Kerry.


The Times quoted Steve Sailer, a columnist for immigration reform Web magazine Vdare.com, who is also adept at estimating a person's I.Q., and has done so for many presidents in the past.


In the 2000 presidential race, Sailer estimated Democrat Al Gore's I.Q. to be 10 points higher than Bush's score, which figured to be around the mid-120s.


Reports the Times: "Mr. Bush's score on the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test at age 22 again suggests that his I.Q was the mid-120's, putting Mr. Bush in about the 95th percentile of the population, according to Mr. Sailer. Mr. Kerry's I.Q. was about 120, in the 91st percentile, according to Mr. Sailer's extrapolation of his score at age 22 on the Navy Officer Qualification Test."


Sailer's analysis was called credible by Linda Gottfredson, an I.Q. expert at the University of Delaware. She told the Times she wasn't surprised at the results or that so many people had assumed that Mr. Kerry was smarter.


"People will often be misled into thinking someone is brighter if he says something complicated they can't understand," she said.


We won't hold our breath waiting for the president's detractors to apologize.

Ahem... Rick??? LMAO!!!!!

Hog

posted too quick, was going to add "in addition"

usahog

stupid is as stupid does

forrest gump.

Emotional Intelligence (EI)??????????

Now I like that

Ei

Bassdude: Under what I'm assuming your definition of "liberal" is, you are probably mostly right. It still doesn't change the fact that I.Q. tests are quite flawed. People with high pattern recognition abilities do extremely well, but does that mean they are any "smarter" than a person who can do on the spot, critcal thinking when dealing with a person? Not at all.

My point was only that the I.Q. tests are quite flawed and biased and have a hard time measuring what we refer to as "street smarts".

We've all probably heard the saying that "B" students will run the world. "A" students are more likely to have higher I.Q.'s, and "B" students higher E.Q.'s.

None better than what Google could find. I learned of E.I. in my M.B.A. Organizational Behavior class.

cheroot chimp if that is the case Kerry must be broke -cause he sure lacks emotion.

sad but true

CigarPrimate

would you expand on "Bush lacks a cortex and Kerry a pituitary"