Given her public appearances this has the feeling of truth.
Take these IQ stories with a grain of salt.
She graduated from law school and passed the bar, which aren’t easy to do and aren’t things you can just sleep your way through.
Who care about vetting- this its true. This was a classmate of her’s at Howard- its true.
And if anyone wants you to prove its true just remind them this is as true, if not truer, than President Trump calling soldiers who went to Vietnam suckers...
The fictional Forrest Gump had a IQ of 75. Just saying.
The average IQ for white people is 100.
The average IQ for black people is 80.
An IQ below 70 is considered mentally retarded.
The Bell Curve: by Richard J. Herrnstein; Charles Murray
https://archive.org/details/bell_curve-epub
Swimming in the shallow end of the bell curve.
The only way Harris got 78, ( 7th percentile) is grade inflation.
But she's smart enough to figure one way for a low-IQ woman to "get ahead" in life....
I think that 78 I.Q. score is a little high. It sounds as though Kamala may have picked up a little “extra credit” somewhere.
BKMRK for great amusement.
An ongoing Holiday In Express degree may be the explanation for her sudden notoriety of national importance
It is funny but (probably) not true. She’s an idiot, and lazy, and possibly often inebriated, though.
On one podcast, someone (forget who) remarked that she is not very book smart, but very calcuating and people smart. I believe that. Certainly, she is not good at being eloquent in real time.
Chauncy Gardener would win in a battle of wits.
Intelligence and wisdom are not correlated.
A post for the weak minded.
I suspect that, much like medical degrees and examination boards, most of the “learning” in Law is a matter of memorization, not intellectual prowess. My daughter expressed an interest in becoming a doctor, so we started looking into what it takes to get a degree, and almost universally the conclusion was that there’s a LOT of memorization, but not a lot of need for mental horsepower.
She does not inspire confidence as a smart cookie, but she is able to do cut and past work reasonably well.
Not a good one to argue a case in court, but can get you a decent plea deal.
It is hard to know how much is a lack of native intelligence, and how much is being intellectually lazy.
Even with her having “stoner appeal”, she’d still be a good fit on Sesame Street.
I doubt this. One parent was a biologist and the other an economist. Perhaps not all that smart vs. people in their professions, but certainly not stupid, much less borderline retarded. People like that don’t have 78 IQ kids, barring oxygen deprivation at birth, or genetic Mongoloidism (neither of which appear to be the case with KH. Also, she passed the bar exam, not an easy thing to do. So, I seriously doubt the veracity of this story. I could see a 98, which is pretty damning for a potential POTUS, since most of them were above 125, about 3 standard deviations above the distinctly average 98. My own personal opinion is that whomever wrote this really disliked her, but that the rest of the story besides the number is true. Honestly, if someone who didn’t understand the scale of an IQ test (because they were drunk, hung over, high or just not paying attention) and they got a 98, they’d figure that they aced it. Not so for a 78 - that’s pure BS.
But there is a big difference between being reasonably book smart and having any common sense, and being a drinker or a drug user isn’t going to help that situation.
Now, WRT the comment made above regarding someone else taking the bar exam for her, that is certainly possible. Being only 3 years older than KH, and having taken several bar exams from 1987-1991 (exactly the time frame when she did, though I didn’t take it in CA), I can say with certainty that no state checked picture IDs back then when you walked into the exam. After she failed once, her “middle class” (another lie of hers, they were quite well to do) could easily have paid some young lady to take the exam for her, and no one would have been the wiser. It is certainly possible, but I have no certain knowledge of whether that’s true or not (though in view of her subsequent actions in repeatedly sleeping with a married man twice her age in order to advance her career, I wouldn’t be surprised).
Bottom line: she’s a dummy, but not quite Forrest Gump dumb.
Harris probably has an IQ around 100, which would make her the dumbest President in US history, if elected.