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Sure, I'll approve this, I see it as insignificant, personally, but here is the article:
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."
That wasn't the complete article, but, most of it.
Interesting, but there's not much difference between 120 and 125. Besides, whether the score be 95, 120, or 150, the test does not measure common sense. Don't think that I'm not thrilled to read this article, though!
Ooooh! I saw this but wasn't gonna go there, lol. *sticks head in the sand*
*or under Mags's sweater*
Just goes to show what alcoholism and drug use does to a person's brain.
Not that I see myself as a (freeaakin') Liberal or that I think Kerry will do any better than Bulsh, but the article did say "probably had" not "definitely has".
the new york times suck obviously funded by bush :P
Can't wait to see the spin they put on this one.
So remember, everytime a liberal points out how dumb the republican canidate is, simply point out that theirs is dumber.
The test speaks for itself...
"the new york times suck obviously funded by bush"
Quite the contrary (not that they're monetarily funded by Dems, either). I'm surprised they ran the story.
"So remember, everytime a liberal points out how dumb the republican canidate is, simply point out that theirs is dumber."
Can we also point out that the Skull n Boner supporters are even dumberer?
Hey buddy! Just because the two presidential candidates that are being promoted the most are from the same school and the same secret society and sheee-it the same family ah still believe in the Amerrrcan Dream. Anyone can grow urp to be president.
So these IQ tests were informal and conducted 35+ years ago?
I think we all know who would come out on top in the results of current tests...
Okay, so if Mister Bush is SMARTER, then that means that he's been ACTING like a freaking moron all these years. DAMN. I've been going about this whole thing bass-ackwards all along...
In all honesty neither of these scores are very high.
My IQ is supposedly 145. Does that mean I'd make a better President than either of them??
185 for me. and IQ cant simply drop overtime.
Shows how little IQ tests mean.
Is this a joke...125?nah, go on, pull the other one.
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