{"article":{"id":40266,"heading":"Bush Ranks Lowest IQ in 50 yrs.","author":"Impeach Him!","created":"2003-03-25 22:29:37","modified":"2013-11-10 23:49:18","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:49:18","article":"

President Bush Ranks Lowest IQ in 50 Years of US Presidents

In a report published last 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 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 50 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 psychological

factors, 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:

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 Bush (R)

182 .. William J. Clinton (D)

091 .. George W. Bush (R)

In IQ order:

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. This study was commissioned on

February 13, 2001 and released on July 9, 2001 to subscribing member

universities and organizations within the educational community.

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Another web site the debunks the IQ Hoaxs, but the lefts continue to spread their lies. The leftist will spare no meas to smear the President od the US and to try ansd stump on the American way of life.<\/p>\r\n\r\nThe Lovenstein Institute IQ Report\r\n\r\n

In July 2001 an e-mail began to circulate around the internet claiming that the Lovenstein Institute, a think-tank based in Scranton, Pennsylvania, had conducted research into the IQ of all the Presidents of the past 50 years and concluded that George W. Bush ranked at the bottom, with an IQ of only 91. This news quickly gained attention from the international media. The London Guardian broke the story on July 19, and on August 26 Garry Trudeau featured the report in his Doonesbury comic strip.","author":"Skinner","parent_id":40266,"mime_type":"text\/html","created":"2003-03-25 23:29:44","modified":"2003-03-25 23:29:44","fileurl":""},{"id":40388,"heading":"Surprised?","article":"Why should you be surprised? Americans have one of the lowest average IQ levels in the western world.","author":"Elliot","parent_id":40266,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-26 01:23:35","modified":"2003-03-26 01:23:35","fileurl":""}]}