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How Smart Should the President Be? A historical analysis suggests a link between IQ and performance
Scientific American ^ | May 26, 2015 | David Z. Hambrick

Posted on 05/26/2015 7:03:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 05/26/2015 7:03:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I’m pretty sure you can’t know someone’s IQ without a formal test.


2 posted on 05/26/2015 7:06:22 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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A historical analysis suggests a link between IQ and performance

Explains a lot about Obamass

3 posted on 05/26/2015 7:08:15 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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Jimmy Carter was a very intelligent man but a poor president. What we need is a high wisdom quotient.


4 posted on 05/26/2015 7:10:54 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington.)
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And certainly more intelligent than Ted Kennedy.


5 posted on 05/26/2015 7:11:33 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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By contrast, in the historiometric approach, a person’s IQ is quantitatively estimated based on variables having known correlations with IQ, such as highest level of education, academic honors, scores on college admissions exams, occupation, and preferences.

So how would Lincoln score by those criteria?

This is the most idiotic thing I've ever seen. It might work, sort of, for the last 50 years. Before that, no way.

I think it is utterly ludicrous to rank JFK as they do.

To my mind, Lincoln was probably our smartest president.

6 posted on 05/26/2015 7:15:09 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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More progressive garbage advocating the elite have every right to dominates the masses.


7 posted on 05/26/2015 7:17:23 PM PDT by Shadow44
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Wisconsin governor Scott Walker may not be the smartest candidate but “our most intelligent presidents have often been our worst presidents” anyway.

I think someone is wrongly associating one's level of formal education with his level of smarts. He's already had significant accomplishments as an executive that I am not aware of others attaining. That's what I call smart.

8 posted on 05/26/2015 7:17:39 PM PDT by chopperman
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“President Obama is too intelligent for Republicans to understand.”

AH - HA - HA - HA - HA - HA!

More psycho-babble clap trap!


9 posted on 05/26/2015 7:20:02 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows h to run my life better than I do?)
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"it is a great advantage to a president, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man."

-- Calvin Coolidge

Or the smartest man/woman in history

10 posted on 05/26/2015 7:20:54 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
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In my judgment, obama has an average, or slightly below average IQ, but he is an accomplished mimic, and thus has been able to dupe many people into believing that he is “articulate and bright and clean.”


11 posted on 05/26/2015 7:26:01 PM PDT by Salvey
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The idiots on the left think Obama is smart and Bush dumb. I think Bush is two times or more intelligent than Obama and smarter than the smooth talking con man Clinton. Clinton knew how to work the system, that didn’t make him smart. Obama, well, he gets worked by someone. He is a puppet.


12 posted on 05/26/2015 7:27:01 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (visit sports.quotelight.com)
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My IQ is probably higher than any US president’s, but I would make a seriously rotten president.

A. I don’t want the job.
B. I’m an introvert, not a team player,
C. I’m short tempered,
D. and probably most importantly, I have very low tolerance for idiots.

With my superior intellect and low BS-threshold, I’d alienate every other country in the world.


13 posted on 05/26/2015 7:27:48 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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I don’t believe IQ has to be all that high, but rather we should judge a candidate on past experience. For example someone like Obama who has the resume of a child - Professional student and he knows how to make phone calls - should not be President.


14 posted on 05/26/2015 7:29:23 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 17 acts of Treason and counting.)
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Carter wasn’t really that smart. I know intelligence is broken down over different types of abilities. However, Carter wasn’t smart. He was well positioned and at the right place at the right time. Same with Obama and Clinton.

Bush, too. Reagan, otoh, was a lot smarter than all of them. Occationally, it happens. Ted Cruz is right there in elite status and might be able to overcome the puppet masters. We will see. IMHO, Thomas Jefferson was our most brilliant leader.

I hope Cruz is of the same clothe.


15 posted on 05/26/2015 7:30:39 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (visit sports.quotelight.com)
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I would bet that the authors of this study voted for Gore in 2000, and that guy was among the least intelligent SOBs I have ever seen running.

IMHO, IQ tests do not measure real smarts. There are other factors where we can not assign a number. BTW --- Nixon's IQ was probably off the charts. Did he have problems because the Democrats "couldn't understand him"?

16 posted on 05/26/2015 7:32:56 PM PDT by Ditto
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[According to one analysis, this is President Obama’s problem: “President Obama is too intelligent for Republicans to understand.”]

Just a wild guess, but I don’t think there is a fat chance in hell that that is the problem.

Am I clairvoyant or what? I knew a delusional sentence like that would be buried in the Sci Am article before I even started reading.


17 posted on 05/26/2015 7:39:50 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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At least smart enough to know his @$$ from a hole in the ground.

Obie isn't that smart...

18 posted on 05/26/2015 7:40:56 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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According to one analysis, this is President Obama’s problem: “President Obama is too intelligent for Republicans to understand.”

I have not seen one logical conclusion come from Obama's mouth in over eight years. . . and when he is actually speaking something that is not scripted by other people who are as equally non-gifted as he at drawing valid conclusions, the number of non sequiturs is exponentially increased. He and his puppet masters are singularly inept at seeing logical consequences of their actions, mis-directed actions, and inactions.

Frankly, I don't think Obama would recognize a logic fallacy if one were to bite him on his Democratic Donkey behind.

19 posted on 05/26/2015 7:41:38 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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Obama has shown that he cannot spell Syracuse, he cannot pronounce the word corpsman and he does not know how many states there are in the U.S.

Obama is the only editor who was unable to write a single piece for the law review.

Unlikely his IQ is above 115.


20 posted on 05/26/2015 7:48:44 PM PDT by ladyjane
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