Re: NYT agrees George Bush IQ Higher than Kerry or Gore's
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- Date: 3 Apr 2007 08:29:53 -0700
On Apr 3, 10:12 am, "Gandalf Grey" <Gandalf greay @ VD Clinic.org>
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On Apr 2, 7:25 pm, "Gandalf Grey" <Gandalf greay @ VD Clinic.org>
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POLITICAL POINTS
Secret Weapon for Bush?
By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: October 24, 2004
To Bush-bashers, it may be the most infuriating revelation yet from the
military records of the two presidential candidates: the young George W.
Bush probably had a higher I.Q. than did the young John Kerry.
That, at least, is the conclusion of Steve Sailer, a conservative
columnist
at the Web magazine Vdare.com and a veteran student of presidential
I.Q.'s.
During the last presidential campaign Mr. Sailer estimated from Mr.
Bush's
SAT score (1206) that his I.Q. was in the mid-120's, about 10 points
lower
than Al Gore's.
Mr. Kerry's SAT score is not known, but now Mr. Sailer has done a
comparison
of the intelligence tests in the candidates' military records. They are
not
formal I.Q. tests, but Mr. Sailer says they are similar enough to make
reasonable extrapolations.
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.
Linda Gottfredson, an I.Q. expert at the University of Delaware, called
it a
creditable analysis said she was not 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," Professor Gottfredson said.
Many Americans still believe a report that began circulating on the
Internet
three years ago, and was quoted in "Doonesbury," that Mr. Bush's I.Q. was
91, the lowest of any modern American president. But that report from the
non-existent Lovenstein Institute turned out to be a hoax.
You might expect Kerry campaign officials, who have worried that their
candidate's intellectual image turns off voters, to quickly rush out a
commercial trumpeting these new results, but for some reason they seem to
be
resisting the temptation.
Upon hearing of their candidate's score, Michael Meehan, a spokesman for
the
senator, said merely: "The true test is not where you start out in life,
but
what you do with those God-given talents. John Kerry's 40 years of public
service puts him in the top percentile on that measure."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/politics/campaign/24points.html?ei=...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/politics/campaign/24points.html?ore...
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Look at the source....Steve Sailer, a conservative columnist.
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I thought you were going to tell us the Mlitary SAT scores were fake . I
guess you have no evidence to refute those facts, so as usual, attack the
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Funny how you never argue how dumb George Bush is. It's always about
John Kerry, isn't it?
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