Bush higher SAT score than John Kerry (vanity)

Freedictionary ^ | 10-9-2004 | Me

[SideoutFred]

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List%20of%20people%20by%20SAT%20score

Bush 1206 Kerry 1190

:rollin

Here is what we also know from New Yorker Magazine and UPI in articles from January of 2004.

-- Bush's SAT scores are higher than Bill Bradley's, Paul Wellstone's, and John Kerry's.

-- Bush scored a 1206 on his SAT, 566 of 800 on verbal and 640 of 800 on math. [Since the SAT's scale has since been "recentered," Bush's score is more like a 1300 today.]

-- Bush's verbal score would place him between the 84th and 92nd percentile of college-bound students, or the 93rd to 97th percentile of ALL high-school seniors taking the exams, the percentile usually used.

-- His math score would also place him between the 84th and 92nd percentile of college-bound students, or the 94th to 98th percentile of ALL high-school seniors taking the exams, the percentile usually used.

-- Using one method to extract IQ's from these SAT scores, Bush's IQ would be somewhere between 124 and 137. Hardly a dunce, that's at least in the top six percent of Americans.

-- We all hear of Bush's supposed college mediocrity, but in reality his "worst" courses were two C-minus scores. Accounting for grade inflation, Bush's worst grades are around today's B-minuses.

Recentered SAT: 1300 IQ: 124-137 Stupid: Definately not.

[LZ_Bayonet]

You may say, "1600 is the max score possible"

But "I have a plan" to score even higher than that.

And don't try to argue with me because my plan will depend on a whole bunch of things that will or won't have happened by the time I actually sit down for the test.

[ASA Vet]

Genius is the ability to make mistakes faster.

[jwalsh07]

I knew it.

[deport]

Legit or not here is a copy purported to be the transcript of President Bush........

[freespirited]

See what you missed Saturday mornings.

We only had one TV and my sister called the shots!

[Diago]

ping

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

From your about page:

"But no matter how hard I tried, it was hard to ignore the fact that the Republicans were far more right on the issues than the Democrats. Socially, I became more conservative as I realized the importance of cultural values.

This is almost the way I see things. When you think about it, cultural values (i.e. belief in God etc.) should be a high priority to libertarians. Even if they themselves are agnostic or atheist. Just think of how much we would save in taxes by reducing the budgets for police and other social control institutions. People would be much more inclined to behave themselves if they believed that God's omni presence was gazing on them and that they would have to go before Him on judgement day.

Old Testament Catholic

[Finny]

Wow! Really? I'm glad you told me that (about getting mixed up direction-wise). My husband gives me no end of teasing over it! I can't even begin to imagine being an air traffic controller. Thank God for you guys!

[Finny]

Then I expect bombers count, too! God bless your dad. The guys we know are Navy fliers, the oldest ones served in Viet Nam, and a lot of them are just young hot shots! I think pilots in general have to be pretty smart. Your dad's a true hero.

[Quilla]

Thank you, he will always be my hero.

[borisbob69]

When I was working traffic I never had a problem with direction...I could always see the clock (12 O'Clock straight ahead of the pilot and around the clock from there), and never ever had any difficulty with left and right turns regardless of the aircraft direction of flight.

But, put me on my own in a mall or driving and I can get lost immediately.

[groanup]

Academically smart and poker-face smart are two different things. I really don't care what Bush's SAT's are. I would shudder to play poker with the man. Muslim terrorists are playing poker with him as we speak.

[Interesting Times]

I would say your math is dead on. 1600 is the max score possible. 1550 would be fairly outrageous (not impossible).

790 math, 760 verbal, 1973...

[bushrocks2004]

The scoring has changed today, Bush's score would be about a 1300 today

[Mia T]

LOWER IQ = SMARTER WAR?
(AND WHY DOESN'T KERRY SIGN FORM 180, ANYWAY?)

[kinejoshua]

encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com is an outdated mirror of Wikipedia (as it states on the bottom of the page you linked to). In case you don't know, Wikipedia is a freely-editable encyclopedia where anyone can change any page however they like. If you check the original article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_by_reported_SAT_score) and its corresponding discussion page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_people_by_reported_SAT_score) you will note that the seemingly fabricated scores have been removed.

[JoeV1]

Sorry, I did better. Scored a perfect 1600 on the questions but they only scored me a 1590 because I spelled my name wrong.

[SideoutFred]

Very true, but the New York Times and Newsweek also have reported Bush's scores higher than Kerry's. Those are not sources that can be edited.