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.
The twelve presidents over the past 55 years, from F.D. Roosevelt to 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. 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.
Among comments made concerning the specific testing of President G.W.
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.
All the Presidents prior to George W. Bush had at 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.
The Lovenstein Institute - Scranton, PA http://lovenstein.org