And the most corrupt.
Right off hand, how many people that you graduated from, can you name that’s been convicted of something?
Now, think of how many in government that you can think of that’s convicted of something or should have.
Hmm.. So if I scored a 27 on the ACT in 7th grade, 2250 (if I recall correctly) on the SAT, and hit 99th percentile on the ASVAB, does that mean I can get a free Senate seat? Or are there any companies looking for a new (multi-million $$) CEO?
IQ does not automatically compute to competence in running the government or common sense. You could literally put every genius in the US into COngress and they would still have a political bent that could defy all odds of success. Being a genius does not mean that one knows all or can handle the task at hand. Besides, they are usually genius at one particular thing, not necessarily across the board.
Take evolution and global warming for instance. They are said to be geniuses, many of them, but refuse to look outside their political bent to see any facts that don’t give with their own. I’m not real impressed with the geniuses running our government. For all their supposed IQ power, they are running this country into the ground, and yet they can’t understand why it isn’t working? Some geniuses just aren’t all that impressive!
Smart does not make one competent. In fact, it may actually contribute to stupidity.
Not buying it.
The proof is in what they say and do...and the saying and doing proves that the vast majority of these folks would have to work to qualify as cretins.
Junk science at its best.
Term limits: don’t let smart people stay long enough to be corrupted. There are plenty of other high IQ’s to take their place.
Really, the more amazing story is the large number of people in Congress who are in the bottom quartile... Sheila Jackson-Lee almost certainly has to be one of those. We can all name several others.
Intelligence is nothing without wisdom.
From the standpoint of good governance, however, it is critical that the subject be able to apply their intelligence to the actual realities of this world, as they apply to the situation & interests of those to whom the subjects' duty lie.
Unfortunately, far too many of those who were born with decent intelligence, today--even many in that upper 1%--have been so conditioned, that their fears or compulsions reduce their functional intellect to that comparable to those on the opposite side of the "Bell Curve."
Some years ago, I coined the term "dysrons" to describe this type. They are very evident, every time we see our Government or the news media, go off on a new tangent, which seems inexplicable to anyone with intelligence enough to learn from human experience. These intellectual misfits, regardless of their I.Q.s, are destroying the West.
William Flax
they are also dangerous psychopaths with no morals or character
Let me get this right. So if you finish last in your class at a top school, you are in the top 1%?
I call bullshit.
Methinks JONATHAN WAI must've drank a Big Gulp size glass of the kool aid! If the smartest people run the US, then we've really dumbed down - case in point - Idiot Joe Biden!