last paragraph is confirmation. I heard Kerry had a C- average at Yale.
Times wrote this?
What the hell? I thought Kerry was TOO SMART to be president?
Wow! I have a higher IQ than the President of the United States! MUCH higher :)
I was going to reply to an earlier post of this article but it got pulled for some reason not stated.
Post this over at DU and watch the fireworks begin! Intelligence is about the most absolute value they have...God, Love, Country, Family all come well below (if they exist at all) over that the DU.
"... John Kerry's 40 years of public service puts him in the top percentile on that measure."
This is outrageous the guy did nothing but harm if will subtract his 3 years at DA office.
Not exactly a surprise. I've always known I am much smarter than Kerry.
Is this really so surprising? It shouldn't be. It has already been reported that Bush had better grades at Yale than Kerry. And this while Bush was a party guy and Kerry a serious studier.
"Does anyone in America doubt that Kerry has a higher IQ than Bush? I'm sure the candidates' SATs and college transcripts would put Kerry far ahead."
Howell Raines
- Former Executive Editor of the New York Times
"The 'Dumb' Factor"
Washington Post, August 27, 2004
Oh yeah?
On this tenth anniversary of the publication of the much-denounced The Bell Curve, it's amusing to reflect on one of the enduring ironies of American political life. Liberals tend to believe two things about IQ:
First, that IQ is a meaningless, utterly discredited concept.
Second, that liberals are better than conservatives because they have much higher IQs.
How did John Kerry get credited with 40 years of public service? Are they counting his time in college?
Just curious, are the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test and Naval Officer Qualifying Test equivalent to the GCT/ARI test for us flunkies?
This website shows President Bush's SAT's better that Kerry.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List%20of%20people%20by%20SAT%20score
Well my IQ was measured at 158 on the Stanford-Binet scale (98th %ile) and I am the only person ever kicked out of the Mensa Society and I have been a GOP partisan since I was in the 7th grade in 1960 So what does that tell you?
Actually IQ estimates based on similar tests are quite feasible and reliable. It's pop-psychologists who try to estimate IQ's based on nothing other than a report of the person or his or her writing that are absurd.
This is simply because IQ is not a real "thing" but simply what an IQ test measures. It only reflects the conception of intelligence on which the IQ test constructor based the test--usually 'intelligence' as applicable to academic pursuits, not street smarts, business sense, the intellectual and cognitive part of survivals skills for living in the wild, etc., and only to the extent the test is well-designed.
Likewise because IQ is defined as a score on a test, it is absurd for anyone to claim someone has an IQ above 160: no reliable test can actually make meaningful distinctions in terms of performance on the standard tests with define IQ beyond 4 standard deviations above the mean.
You call down to one of your men and ask him to draft a message to the Admiral in Command of all Naval Forces in Vietnam and also to the Commander of Market Time. IT says "Merry Christmas from the most inland Market Time unit." You hope that they'll court marshal you or something because that would make sense. But the night soothes everything and the people and things that are close to you dart through the mind and bring the only warmth and peace that there is. Visions of sugar plums really do dance through your head and you think of stockings and snow and roast chestnuts and fires with birch logs and all that is good and warm and real. It's Christmas Eve.