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I am a bit skeptical of these numbers. When was the IQ tested? Methods of testing IQ are different when Washington was president compared to now. At what age? Joe Biden most certainly does not have 149 IQ currently. But it is interesting to read PolyHype on this subject.
1 posted on 07/09/2021 10:16:15 AM PDT by entropy12
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George W. Bush - IQ 124
Gerald Ford - IQ 127
Herbert Hoover - IQ 129.77
Ronald Reagan - IQ 130
George H.W. Bush - IQ 130.1
William McKinley - IQ 130.2

Richard Nixon - IQ 131
Dwight D. Eisenhower - IQ 131.9
George Washington - IQ 132.5
Franklin D. Roosevelt - IQ 139.6
Abraham Lincoln - IQ 140
Theodore Roosevelt - IQ 142.3
Barack Obama - IQ 145
Jimmy Carter - IQ 145.1
Bill Clinton - IQ 148.8
Joe Biden - IQ 149
John F. Kennedy - IQ 150.7
Thomas Jefferson - IQ 153.8
Donald Trump - 156
John Quincy Adams - IQ 168.8


2 posted on 07/09/2021 10:16:51 AM PDT by entropy12 ( I am more interested in return of my capital than return on my capital...who said that?)
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I think this is about as meaningful as a list of the “ten best movies ever made”. Whatever the author (or someone they choose as an authority) feels, that’s what it is.


6 posted on 07/09/2021 10:20:09 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: entropy12

Hold it. How does one determine the IQ of Presidents like Lincoln or Jefferson when the IQ test was only developed in the early 20th Century?


10 posted on 07/09/2021 10:22:11 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: entropy12

I identify as having a 200 IQ.


11 posted on 07/09/2021 10:23:29 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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It’s a shame no one invented a Wisdom Quotient while wisdom was still relatively common before the -isms coming out of the French Revolution and emerging socialist thinking turned so many into nitwits.

I’m betting most all high IQ Leftists would be freaking morons on a WQ scale.


14 posted on 07/09/2021 10:24:13 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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.....joe biden most certainly does not have 149 IQ currently.....

I don’t think he EVER cleared 105 or so!!! He always—throughout his career—acted dumb-dumb, with few if any real accomplishments!!!!


17 posted on 07/09/2021 10:26:05 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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> John Quincy Adams - IQ 168.8 <

The mere fact that they are reporting IQs to the tenth of a point make this whole thing - in my opinion - laughable.

So John Quincy Adams’s IQ is 168.8. Not 168.7 and not 168.9. That’s just making stuff up.


18 posted on 07/09/2021 10:26:41 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Warning! I clicked on that site and got a message saying my computer was locked, so I bugged out of there.


19 posted on 07/09/2021 10:28:49 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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86.25478% of all statistics and measures in the MSM are made up or meaningless.


21 posted on 07/09/2021 10:29:38 AM PDT by Red6
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Isaac Asimov had an IQ estimated around 200. Yet he was a complete left wing nut. He supported the anti-Semitic party, the Democrats, and hated Reagan. So was he “smart”? In some ways yes. But in others no. A truly smart person can see an enemy and deal with it. He allied with his enemies.

IQ does not equate to wisdom. It measures some aspects of intelligence. But if that intelligence is filled with screwy data then the results will be poor. This explains why so many college grads are screwy. They get their minds filled with completely false information. Next thing you know they are accepting utterly stupid and discredited economic theories.


31 posted on 07/09/2021 10:35:13 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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The best part is the picture, thanks for posting it!


34 posted on 07/09/2021 10:37:22 AM PDT by JayGalt (The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.)
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To: entropy12

These things are always bogus.


36 posted on 07/09/2021 10:38:51 AM PDT by x
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To: entropy12; ransomnote
In related news, John F Kennedy had probably the highest Q score of all Presidents.

Trump's high up in Q score as well.

37 posted on 07/09/2021 10:39:07 AM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both)
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SKEPTICAL? I am atounded at the conceit. The Standard Binet test wasbegun in 1916. I might add that any study that ranks Biden as genius level should be summarily dismissed as bogus.


41 posted on 07/09/2021 10:40:27 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (RISE UP O MEN OF GOD. BE DONE WITH LESSER THINGS.)
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What a load of bunk:

1. The IQ test wasn't even developed until the early 1900's and was not ubiquitous until much later;

2. Even if some of these presidents had taken the test, how would the scores have become available;

3. The notion of ranking people based on a tenth of a point difference is beyond ridiculous;

4. Scores can vary significantly every time someone takes the test; and

5. Joe Biden* wouldn't have broken 120 on his best day.

43 posted on 07/09/2021 10:41:47 AM PDT by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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Not that I’m overly skeptical, but if TommyJeff can ace a test that wouldn’t even be invented for another hundred years, that’s pretty darn smart.


48 posted on 07/09/2021 10:45:09 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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China-Joe-Ho could have that score only if he cheated or bribed someone. He has always been a crook and a moron. Always. In the prime of his life, at best, he was average so maybe 110. I’ve listened to him over the entirety of his career and he has always been an idiot and stupid as the day is long.


52 posted on 07/09/2021 10:53:26 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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Blatant In-Your-Face Fake News Alert!
53 posted on 07/09/2021 10:57:33 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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These are false. John F. Kennedy’s IQ was 115.


55 posted on 07/09/2021 10:59:41 AM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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Silly. Measuring IQ to the tenth of a percent?

I didn’t like the way they kept the page jumping trying to get me to hit ad links I didn’t want.

Total BS numbers based on nothing, just click bait for the ads.


59 posted on 07/09/2021 11:03:36 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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