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In a report published, 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 it's research to the education community on each new president, which includes the famous IQ report among others. According to statements in the report, there have been twelve presidents over the past 50 years, from F. D. Roosevelt to G. W. Bush who were all rated _base_d on scholarly achievements, writings that they alone produced without aid of staff, their ability to speak with clarity, and several other psychological factors which were then scored in 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) 099 George HW Bush (R) 182 William J. Clinton (D) 091 George W. Bush (R) The non-partisan researchers who evaluated the twelve presidents determined that the six Republican presidents for the past 50 years had an average IQ of 115.5, with President Nixon having the highest IQ, at 155. President G. W. Bush was rated the lowest of all the Republicans with an IQ of 91. The six Democrat presidents had IQs with an average of 156, with Bill Clinton having the highest at 182. President 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 were due to his apparent difficulty to command 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, so in many ways that made it more difficult to arrive at an assessment. We had to rely more heavily on tran_script_s of his un_script_ed 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, 2002 to subscribing member universities and organizations within the education community.

In a report published, 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 it's research to the education community on each new president, which includes the famous IQ report among others. < snip commie bullshit lie http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/lovenstein.html Moron. Get the latest lies; we've already done this one.

In a report published, 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 it's research to the education community on each new president, which includes the famous IQ <snipe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That is pathetic guttersnipe leftest garbage! You do discredit to your ilk. I would not be surprised if your ilk also told you shut the fuck up as you are giving them a bad name! That story is of course... FALSE! www.snopes.com put that old saw to rest long ago. Here's the _link_: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm Here's what they say about your tripe: 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, because this is just another spoof that  was taken too seriously. The piece 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 — note that Bill Clinton's IQ is listed as being exactly twice George W. Bush's — 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 _base_d solely on writings and speeches is bound to be error-prone. _base_d 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. Update:   As obvious as this joke was, at least two publications were taken in by it: The [London] Guardian and the New Zealand Southland Times. Both ran the Presidential I.Q. tale as a factual item (on 19 July and 7 August 2001 respectively). The Associated Press publicized The Guardian's error on 12 August, moving The Guardian to post a retraction on 14 August, and U.S. News & World Report clearly reported the I.Q. item as a hoax on 20 August, 2001. Gary Trudeau's 26 August 2001 Doonesbury comic strip features an invisible George W. Bush being told about his ranking on the presidential I.Q. ladder by an underling. (This strip appeared on the Doonesbury web site on 2 September 2001). Last updated:   5 September 2001

In a report published, 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 it's research to the education community on each new president, which includes the famous IQ report among others. It's been debunked since 2001 and you haven't caught on yet? Another debunked myth she talked about was the 2001 fictitious report from the nonexistent Lovenstein Institute on the presidential IQs of 12 presidents. The report was widely circulated around the internet, and it basically said that Democrats had high IQs, but Republicans had low IQs. According to that report, George W. Bush's IQ is 91, exactly one half of Bill Clinton's IQ which was said to be 182. Ms. Mikkelson pointed out in the interview that, with the exception of Richard Nixon, the IQs of the presidents are simply not known, and the fake report even got Nixon's IQ wrong. At the snopes website, she points out that The Guardian of London reported it as actual news and didn't retract it until after the Associated Press pointed out The Guardian's error. As one might have expected, Garry Trudeau featured it in a Doonsbury cartoon, and at least one anti-Bush website is still presenting that bogus report as fact. **************************************** I think Lawmakr must have an IQ that barely makes the double digits. LZ

It was published in the LA Times you dumb fuck. Bush is a fucking idiot. And Reagan! I'm sad he is dead. I wish he could have suffered a few more years, shitting all over himself like the dumb-ass-fuck invalid he is.  If he had really cared about people, he would have done something about AIDS, or the environement, instead of raping the land, selling arms for hostages, or praying like some dumb ass. I'm glad he's dead. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And we in turn are happy to have Troll Slime that hide cowardly behind false monikers spout your crap. Reason being is you give liberalism and the left a VERY bad name. You like some others, come out at times like this when the rest of the world is using wisdom while we lay a President to rest, and do discredit to your political POV. Now I have to steal a Horne line and just say, I love it, I just bygod love it but also leave you with: BIOYA! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jan Eric Orme Work like you don't need the money, love like you have never been hurt and dance like nobody is watching!