Swanspirit
July 31st, 2001, 11:11 PM
Merry Merry,
YA know when you post these things ,,,,, and then a friend comes along and taps you on the shoulder and says ohhh Swannnie.... go here and read this ....... I gave him a chocolate for not taking TWO points off my IQ LOL.
http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm
Claim: According to a study by the Lovenstein Institute, President
Bush has the lowest IQ of all presidents of past 50 years.
Status: False.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001]
President Bush Has Lowest IQ of all Presidents of past
50 Years
Origins: No, this isn't a real news report, nor does it describe a real
study. There isn't a "Lovenstein Institute" in Scranton, Pennsylvania
(or anywhere else in the USA), nor do any of the people quoted in the
story exist.
This is simply a political jibe, made obvious by its ranking all the
Democratic presidents of the last several decades as having high
(even exceptionally high) IQs, while ranking all the Republican
presidents from the same time frame as average to moderate in
intelligence, with the current president and his father assigned
below-average figures placing them at the very bottom of the list.
(President Nixon is the sole exception, presumably because his
reputation is still so tarnished that not even a high IQ measurement
can yet redeem him in the court of public opinion.)
[Some noticeable errors: Although the study includes Franklin D.
Roosevelt, who died in office in 1945, the report is described as
covering presidents in office "over the past 50 years." Also not true is
the claim that "all the Presidents prior to George W. Bush had a least
one book under their belt" -- some of them authored no books until
after becoming president, and George W. Bush did have a book to his
credit before being elected president, 1999's A Charge to Keep. Plus, if
there's a "Swanson/Crain" system for ranking intelligence, nobody
else seems to have heard of it.]
In any case, IQ is a dodgy enough concept even when measured by
tests designed for the purpose -- trying to guess not just relative
rankings but specific IQ scores based solely on writings and speeches
is bound to be error-prone. Based on President George H. Bush's
extemporaneous speech-making, for example, he couldn't "speak with
clarity" to save his life, but he was clearly far more intelligent than
the insultingly low IQ assigned to him above. And a recent article
reports President Kennedy's IQ as 119, far below the genius-level 174
ascribed to him here.
darn darn even tho I wanted it to be true it would appear as if it isnt ....
Love and TRUTH
Swannie
YA know when you post these things ,,,,, and then a friend comes along and taps you on the shoulder and says ohhh Swannnie.... go here and read this ....... I gave him a chocolate for not taking TWO points off my IQ LOL.
http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm
Claim: According to a study by the Lovenstein Institute, President
Bush has the lowest IQ of all presidents of past 50 years.
Status: False.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001]
President Bush Has Lowest IQ of all Presidents of past
50 Years
Origins: No, this isn't a real news report, nor does it describe a real
study. There isn't a "Lovenstein Institute" in Scranton, Pennsylvania
(or anywhere else in the USA), nor do any of the people quoted in the
story exist.
This is simply a political jibe, made obvious by its ranking all the
Democratic presidents of the last several decades as having high
(even exceptionally high) IQs, while ranking all the Republican
presidents from the same time frame as average to moderate in
intelligence, with the current president and his father assigned
below-average figures placing them at the very bottom of the list.
(President Nixon is the sole exception, presumably because his
reputation is still so tarnished that not even a high IQ measurement
can yet redeem him in the court of public opinion.)
[Some noticeable errors: Although the study includes Franklin D.
Roosevelt, who died in office in 1945, the report is described as
covering presidents in office "over the past 50 years." Also not true is
the claim that "all the Presidents prior to George W. Bush had a least
one book under their belt" -- some of them authored no books until
after becoming president, and George W. Bush did have a book to his
credit before being elected president, 1999's A Charge to Keep. Plus, if
there's a "Swanson/Crain" system for ranking intelligence, nobody
else seems to have heard of it.]
In any case, IQ is a dodgy enough concept even when measured by
tests designed for the purpose -- trying to guess not just relative
rankings but specific IQ scores based solely on writings and speeches
is bound to be error-prone. Based on President George H. Bush's
extemporaneous speech-making, for example, he couldn't "speak with
clarity" to save his life, but he was clearly far more intelligent than
the insultingly low IQ assigned to him above. And a recent article
reports President Kennedy's IQ as 119, far below the genius-level 174
ascribed to him here.
darn darn even tho I wanted it to be true it would appear as if it isnt ....
Love and TRUTH
Swannie