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[email protected], "Philip
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> This is a fictitious website. Clinton was a Rhodes scholar. Bush was not
> accepted to UT Law School. Sorry, but you'll never convince me that Bush is
> playing with a full deck of cards.
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> "Steve" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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http://www.csbsju.edu/uspp/Election/bush011401.htm
Unlike John F. Kennedy, who obtained an IQ score of 119, or Al Gore, who
achieved scores of 133 and 134 on intelligence tests taken at the beginning
of his high school freshman and senior years, no IQ data are available for
George W. Bush. But we do know that the young Bush registered a score of
1206 on the SAT, the most widely used test of college aptitude. (The more
cerebral Al Gore obtained 1355.)
Statistically, Bush's test performance places him in the top 16 percent of
prospective college students ó hardly the mark of a dimwit. Of course, the
SAT is not designed as an IQ test. But it is highly correlated with general
intelligence, to the tune of .80. In plain language, the SAT is two parts a
measure of general intelligence and one part a measure of specific
scholastic reasoning skills and abilities.
If Bush could score in the top 16 percent of college applicants on the SAT,
he would almost certainly rank higher on tests of general intelligence,
which are normed with reference to the general population. But even if his
rank remained constant at the 84th-percentile level of his SAT score, it
would translate to an IQ score of 115.
It's tempting to employ Al Gore's IQ:SAT ratio of 134:1355 as a formula for
estimating Bush's probable intelligence quotient ó an exercise in fuzzy
statistics that predicts a score of 119. If the number sounds familiar,
it's precisely the IQ score attributed to Kennedy, whom Princeton political
scientist Fred Greenstein, in "The Presidential Difference," commended as "a
quick study, whose wit was an indication of a subtle mind."