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QUOZIENTE
D’INTELLIGENZA,
più l’hanno basso, più cercan la violenza
In a report published 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 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 based 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 (Democratic)
132 Harry Truman (D)
122 Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)
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 HW Bush (R)
182 William J. Clinton (D)
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 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
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 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 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 education community.
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