Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:12:49 -0800
From: Bob Perilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gray Matter-Orange Alert
We can only hope this study is apocryphal. Please do read it.
Bob Perilla
<http://www.bighillbillybluegrass.com>www.bighillbillybluegrass.com
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From: "Deb Cohn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hail to the Pres
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:21:54 +0000
>If late night TV comedy is an indicator, then there has never been
>as widespread a perception that a president is not intellectually
>qualified for the position he holds as there is with President GW Bush.
>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 it's 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 50 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 Ford (R)
>
>175 James E. Carter (D)
>
>105 Ronald Reagan (R)
>
>098 George HW Bush (R)
>
>182 William J. Clinton (D)
>
>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 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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