“...Obama...is still out on the right-hand tail of the IQ bell curve....”
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Yes, I agree...but he has not strayed very far from the “center” of the bell curve...a standard deviation perhaps. In any case, wherever he is on the IQ bell curve, he is likely well over on the LEFT-HAND TAIL of the Competence bell curve.
I speak as one who scored well to the far right of the IQ curve at eighteen. Actually in the top one per cent of a group of Navy enlisted men who were all well into the triple digits. I say that IQ alone is limited in what it says about future prospects. On the one hand a low two digit score is an almost certain predictor of failure at most endeavors but on the other hand a super high triple digit score is no guarantee of success, if it were you would know me by my real name and you would see me on the TV news regularly.
Put Barack Obama in the big swamp trying to hold his own with a group of deer hunting, catfishing, timber cutting, bulldozer driving, jack of all trades
rednecks and he will look like the helpless idiot just as those people would at a diplomatic dinner. The difference is that to me Obama is an idiot in BOTH settings.