Posted on 05/26/2015 7:03:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The IQ tests measures how good someone is at taking IQ tests.
Yeah, Ted could write.
His devotion to strict historical accuracy is a little more questionable.
Entirely right.
However, there is a high degree of correlation between this skill and actual intelligence.
They say "IQ correlated positively with a measure of “presidential greatness” based on multiple rankings and ratings of presidents’ leadership ability—and the relationship went in a straight line."
Of course they would get straight line rankings. The same people guessed at both the rankings AND the greatness. A true test of correlation would have three different groups of people, all blind to the others, one group ranking IQ, another ranking "greatness", and the third performing the correlation.
Agree. To put JFK over Lincoln immediately made my “BS Meter” go off.
Had a friend, one of the smartest people I’ve ever met, who never even graduated from High School. I’ve spent the majority of my adult life working in higher education and educated sure has heck doesn’t mean intelligent.
Kerry’s college grades were lower than Bush’s. But the media liked to hide that fact.
But educated people like to think it does.
I personally never had the opportunity to attend college, but I’ve worked my way up to near the head of my profession in a rather obscure field. People are remarkably surprised when they find out I’m not college educated, though I make no attempt to hide it. By the time they find out, I’ve usually thoroughly demonstrated my competence on the job, so they don’t care.
One of my more enjoyable experiences was leading a team to victory in a winter festival Knowledge Bowl competition. College town, and we stomped all over teams loaded with PhDs.
Never let schooling interfere with your education. They are distinct concepts, though people confuse them.
Read a biography of Garfield once. He had a party trick.
He’d get two pieces of paper and two pens.
Somebody would give him a Shakespeare or other quote.
He’d immediately translate and simultaneously write the quote down in Greek with his left hand, writing backwards, and in Latin with his right hand.
!!!
Intelligence test or work test. I can’t tell you how many times over the last 6 years that while either programming or cutting firewood that I thought, Obama couldn’t do this.
My IQ was measure four points lower then yours. (RATS. . . grin) I agree with your assessment completely of our current White House pResident. I also knew Ronald Reagan personally. . . and he was a very brilliant man with insights that belie the level of IQ they have assigned to him.
Years ago I was taught that there is a difference, in some people a huge difference, between ‘intelligence’ or ‘smarts’ as measured by standard questions about ordinary life occurrences and ‘wisdom’. Wisdom being the result of being able to translate intelligence to necessary aspects of human life. I believe the Founders for the most had such wisdom in forming the USA. Lincoln apparently had both and I tend to believe that Reagan also had both.
Veto! said “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.”
Amen, especially ‘D’!
I agree.
Scientific American has been nothing but a political rag since 1968, I canceled my subscription in 1972.
indeed
I’ve worked with folks who have multiple PHDs and are scary-smart in their field - yet they can’t tie their own shoes. I’ve worked with folks who are not degreed at all, but are perhaps the best broad-range problem solvers I have ever met. I’ve worked with good managers and bad. Education/IQ does not seem to form any pattern in my experience.
Serial killers have been known to have a relatively high IQ.
So, although *some* level of intelligence is desirable, I want a President who can *LEAD*, argue his policies coherently both to Congress and The People and delegate responsibly to execute those policies. I doubt many Presidents have the understanding of every single issue they deal with, compared to the understanding of their chosen advisors. If the President surrounds himself with good people, it increases the odds we will have good results.
Case in point: Valerie Jarrett.
After reading up a bit on Sorensen’s career I see he was a Demorat apparatchik right up to his very end in 2010.
It’s apparent that the man has a “talent”, like a parlor trick, of being able to read speeches in a charismatic and convincing manner.
When the words aren’t written for him, however, his sub-100 IQ becomes readily apparent. as well.
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