Proof that George W. Bush is an idiot (or close to it)

[Liberalboy]

I got this in an e-mail today....I'm posting the full text because it made me smile
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If you believe in psychologists... here's a bit of news to reinforce all your preconceived notions:

In a report published Monday, the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, Pennsylvania, detailed its findings of afour-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 55 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 psychologicalfactors, 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:

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.

[ComerPerro]

1. As fun of a read that this is,

It has been debunked at snopes.

Its very believable though...

[hang a left]

3. I was starting to feel so good

I'm between truman and , oh crap......... I forgot got to go back and look


on edit- Johnson but no short term memory, that is shot. Come to think of it so is my long term memory.

[robbedvoter]

2. Old hoax. W is not an idiot, he is a fundy authoritarian:

So George, how do you feel about your mom and dad?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1033904,00.html
Psychologist Oliver James analyses the behaviour of the American
president

[sistersofmercy]

4. Hilarious!!! No doubt about it Junior's forte is not public speaking.

[VOX]

5. Yes, a hoax, but you looks at those IQs and say....

Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep... (all the way down the list).

:toast:

[Brucey]

6. I guess we kinda knew chimpy was no genius.

Hey, 91 seems high!