Bush Beats Kerry in IQ Head-to-Head (not surprisingly)

The Times of India ^ | 10/25/04 | LittleSpotBlog

[LittleSpotBlog]

IQ Test: Bush outshines Kerry CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2004 04:16:38 PM ] Washington: President Bush is not a bozo; in fact, he may be a near-brainiac.

An American researcher has challenged popular belief and water cooler jokes about Bush's cerebral limitations by arguing - on the basis of available records - that he is not only smart but has a higher IQ than his rival John Kerry.

Based on various academic and military school records including his SAT score (1206), conservative columnist Steve Sailer has calculated that Bush's IQ is between 125 and 130.

That would put him in the "very superior intelligence" category and in the 95th percentile, which means only one out of 20 people would score higher.

In comparison, similar (but not same) records and tests suggest John Kerry's IQ is only around 120, says Sailer in a commentary on the conservative blog www.vdare.com.

Sailer looked at school records and tests both men took when there were enrolling into the US military at age 22 and extrapolated the results to arrive his conclusion.

[Hatteras]

"What's the connection between space shuttle and a horse's ass?"

Romans? (Seriously, I actually know this one... but I'll wait...)

[atomicpossum]

Another liberal who's coloring-book education did not teach him the true definition of FASCISM.

[HenryLeeII]

Because Bush does not talk in a elitist, condiscending way like Kerry does.

Pontificating in a manner reminiscent of Jin-jis Khan?

[Hatteras]

I should say, I know it, but I'm so sure of the accuracy of the story.

[Darksheare]

Bush is a liar?
How so?

[syriacus]

If you don't have anything intelligent to say, SAY IT LOUDER.

Liberals that I know are very adept at giving off subtle signals that they will get mad if you say anything that comes close to contradicting them.

They rely on Non-Liberals to back off from potential arguments.

[Darksheare]

Clinton said Saddam was a threat, yet ignored Saddam's troops firing SAM's at our pilots nearly on a daily basis.
Suddenly, because the President changes, the Liberals think Saddam was no longer a threat.
Want to explain how that could be?

[IamConservative]

Liberals automatically deduct 100 IQ points if your accent places you anywhere South or West of New York City.

[Ditto]

Their eyes turn red. Their voices rise an octave or two. Little balls of spit-foam appear in the corners of their mouths. We all saw it. Lawrence O'Donnell let the cat out of the bag last Friday night.

What happens when I talk to a Lib. (and generally blow them out with a fact-bassed argument) is that they will attempt to put some sort of words in my mouth.

I have found that they don't really listen -- or don't have the capability to listen -- and simply apply the most negative stereotype available to my views without ever listening to what those views really are. They will make it very personal as opposed to an intellectual exchange.

They don't get to mouth foaming part until I refuse to engage in a personal attack and instead return to discussing facts. Very few can handle a purely intellectual exchange.

[Lady Jag]

Right!!   I've always gotten a kick out of this story.

Here's a new twist on an old story:

What's the connection between space shuttle and a horse's ass? Read on to find out!

The U.S. standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That is an exceptionally odd number.

Now, why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and the U.S. Railroads were built by English expatriates.

Why did the English build them that way? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

So why did the wagons have that particular odd spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

So, who built those old rutted roads? The first long distance roads in Europe (and England) were built by Imperial Rome for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts in the roads? The ruts in the roads, which everyone had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels, were first formed by Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for (or by) Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.

The U.S. standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Specifications and bureaucracies live forever. So, the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back end of two war horses. Thus we have the answer to the original question.

Now the twist to the story... When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two booster rockets attached to the side of the main fuel tank. These are Solid Rocket Boosters or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory had to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, the major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass!!!

[Darksheare]

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[mafree]

My DOG beats Kerry in IQ!

I'll bet your dog beats sKerry in looks and character too.

[Lady Jag]

I'm sure you are right. Check Post #70. The shuttle twist sometimes throws people off.

[macrahanish #1]

Ben Affleck comes to mind.

[LittleSpotBlog]

I'd have to say that while I could accept that Bush was favored with acceptance to Yale because of his family/father, that wouldn't have helped him get good grades. Professors don't usually know who your parents are, and even if they do, they could care less.

[technochick99]

As a member of Mensa, I feel I have a right to poke fun at the odd ducks who usually attend Mensa meetings.

And here I was just about to get snippy with you!

[Lady Jag]

>I>odd ducks who usually attend Mensa meetings.

Yeah, socially immature left-wing unemployed while all the GOP, Mensans or not have lives and incomes.

[ebiskit]

I think its all part of his 'poker face'. My ol' man told me a long time ago that if you get your opponents to 'misunderestimate' your abilities and strengths, they are toast.

D

[MineralMan]

"Even the SAT will tell you that Bush's 1200+ SAT in 1964 would be 1350 today. Is 1350 enough for Yale today?"

Not according to the SAT folks. Here's the breakdown of median SAT scores at various universities:

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SAT > 1500
California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvey Mudd College

SAT > 1450
Yale University, Stanford University, Pomona College, Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University

SAT > 1400
Middlebury College, Rice University, Williams College, Amherst College, Duke University, Brown University, Claremont McKenna College, Johns Hopkins University, University of Chicago, Emory University,

SAT > 1350
University of Chicago, Emory University, Northwestern University, Carleton College, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Washington University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Wesleyan University, Bowdoin College, Haverford College, Wellesley College, University of Notre Dame, Vassar College, Washington and Lee University, Webb Institute, Case Western Reserve University, St. John's College (MD), Georgia Institute of Technology, Macalester College, New York University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Bates College, Davidson College, Grinnell College,

SAT > 1300
Reed College, Tufts University, Barnard College, Brandeis University, Colby College, Colgate University, College of William and Mary, University of California - Berkeley, University of Rochester, Wheaton College (IL), Oberlin College, St. John's College (NM), University of Richmond, Vanderbilt University, Whitman College, Boston College, University of Southern California, University of Virginia, Bryn Mawr College, Illinois Institute of Technology, New College of Florida, Wake Forest University, US Naval Academy, Kalamazoo College, Kenyon College, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of California - Los Angeles, Manhattanville College, Rhodes College (TN), Scripps College, Trinity University, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor,

SAT > 1250
Bucknell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Boston University, Lehigh University, Trinity College (CT), US Air Force Academy, US Merchant Marine Academy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, College of the Atlantic, Grove City College, Mount Holyoke College, St. Olaf College, Smith College, Franklin & Marshall College, Thomas Aquinas College, Yeshiva University, Furman University, Hendrix College, Illinois Wesleyan University, Lawrence University, Simon's Rock College of Bard, US Military Academy, College of New Jersey, Hamilton College (NY), Hampshire College, Lafayette College, Pepperdine University, University of Maryland - College Park, US Coast Guard Academy, Beloit College, Colorado College, Lewis & Clark College, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, University of Missouri - Rolla, University of Puget Sound, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Villanova University, Colorado School of Mines, College of the Holy Cross, George Washington University, New School University, Southwestern University, Tulane University, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Bard College, Kettering University, Gustavus Adolphus College, Knox College, Pitzer College, Polytechnic University, Skidmore College, State Univ. of New York - College at Geneseo, Truman State University, University of Dallas, University of the South

[Lady Jag]

Below is a jpg. Where do you think Clinton would place?