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Bush higher SAT score than John Kerry (vanity)
Freedictionary ^ | 10-9-2004 | Me

Posted on 10/09/2004 9:56:01 PM PDT by 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.

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To: freespirited

Generations of kids raised on classic Warner Brothers cartoons watched Bugs Bunny write off idiots with the words: "What a maroon!"


81 posted on 10/10/2004 12:45:23 AM PDT by Finny (God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, and victory.)
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To: SideoutFred

So.... we should expect to see this on MSNBCNNBCBS News, yes? After all, they wouldn't want to seem biased, would they?


82 posted on 10/10/2004 12:47:31 AM PDT by tarawa
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To: Poincare
Got 1570 in 1961. Beat the Unibomber. Where did it all go?

Use it or lose: it is the same for gray matter as for muscle.

83 posted on 10/10/2004 1:25:18 AM PDT by Ruth A.
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To: freespirited
It's just that a discussion of intelligence reminded me of the word, which I so often see spelled here as "maroon." Have never been able to figure out why this is and have wondered if it is an inside joke of some kind...

Yes, inside cultural joke. It is Bugs Bunny's pronounciation of "moron" when he is ridiculing the adversary. Of course, no sooner does Bugs say this than the foe returns--even more enraged. See what you missed Saturday mornings.

84 posted on 10/10/2004 1:35:00 AM PDT by Ruth A.
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To: SideoutFred

Let's see his LSAT scores, his full medical records, his military records, his tax records, and his divorce papers.
He sure is hiding something.


85 posted on 10/10/2004 1:38:20 AM PDT by PJBlogger (Revenge of the PajamaBloggers....coming soon to a screen near you)
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To: PJBlogger
He sure is hiding something.

< Dan Rather's voice > And if he's not, why hasn't he denied it? < /Dan Rather's voice >

Actually, we want Teresa's tax records and his campaign loan payments on their house.

86 posted on 10/10/2004 1:44:01 AM PDT by Ruth A.
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To: SideoutFred

Lots of "regular people" had higher scores than both.

So the point is...


87 posted on 10/10/2004 1:46:45 AM PDT by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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To: SideoutFred

Well I have to claim the Freeper Prize I'm the only person ever kicked out of the Mensa Society


88 posted on 10/10/2004 2:11:54 AM PDT by Armigerous
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To: Armigerous
I'm still looking for the Womensa Society.
89 posted on 10/10/2004 2:22:55 AM PDT by unspun (RU working your precinct, churchmembers, etc. 4 good votes? | Not "Unspun w/ AnnaZ" but I appreciate)
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To: Finny
I can relate to many aspects of your reply. My IQ is in the 140 neighborhood and I was an Air Traffic Controller for 20 years in the AF. I was able to see the big picture in my head at all times with aircraft closing in to the same point in space and others departing that point and crossing paths at different altitudes. It was always a moving 3 dimensional puzzle and I was extremely comfortable with the action.

Take me away from that environment and I get lost at the mall. I can walk into a store and when I walk back out I can't remember which way I arrived from. My wife has to make sure she pays attention to where we came from and where we're headed. Go figure...LOL

90 posted on 10/10/2004 3:22:55 AM PDT by borisbob69 (Old shade is better than new shade!)
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To: Finny
I can relate to many aspects of your reply. My IQ is in the 140 neighborhood and I was an Air Traffic Controller for 20 years in the AF. I was able to see the big picture in my head at all times with aircraft closing in to the same point in space and others departing that point and crossing paths at different altitudes. It was always a moving 3 dimensional puzzle and I was extremely comfortable with the action.

Take me away from that environment and I get lost at the mall. I can walk into a store and when I walk back out I can't remember which way I arrived from. My wife has to make sure she pays attention to where we came from and where we're headed. Go figure...LOL

91 posted on 10/10/2004 3:26:34 AM PDT by borisbob69 (Old shade is better than new shade!)
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To: Congressman Billybob

So far, this thread has avoided falling into a discussion of the worthless MENSA club, (hooray!) has forgiven intelligent folks who can't spell worth a tinker's damn (which leaves those of us who can spell feeling even more smug), and has saluted the most clever character ever created...the most qualified character to comment on another's intelligence, Bugs Bunny.

If this thread just had a beat and I could dance to it, I'd give it an "A".


92 posted on 10/10/2004 3:51:13 AM PDT by January24th
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To: commish
Hehe -- I spanked both of them --- 1550 -- 730 Math 720 Verbal.

You just failed addition, IQ genius.

93 posted on 10/10/2004 4:02:50 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS", Fake But Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: Finny
It seems that one has to be wildly intelligent, fast-thinking, mathematically astute, and have an above-average knack for 3-dimensional thinking to master jets.

Do bombers count? My father was a squadron commander in the 385th Bomb Group in WWII and you described him perfectly. :)

94 posted on 10/10/2004 4:10:47 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: devolve; July 4th
Kerry makes stuff up as he goes along. "Kerry Tales" .....

That must be BULL Corn he's holding, huh ???


95 posted on 10/10/2004 4:11:26 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (The GOP throw their trash out. The DemocRATS worship theirs.)
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To: Old Professer

Beats me. My I.Q. is 145 and I just borrowed $120,000 on a $105,000 "post-war afterbirth" and wrote over $7,000 in checks to put a new roof on a severely gravitationally-challenged exercise in "bootstrap architecture" while my future eartnings could be measured in devalued Argentinian pesos, so who am I to judge?



LOL Rather humorous. However, I'd say there's no correlation between IQ and "street smarts." My IQ is at least 10 to 15 points lower than yours but most people say I have a lot of street smarts. Even my over 150 IQ daughter would ask me advice when it came to buying houses, cars, love, etc., and she could not out smart me in matters of the "street." However, intellectually she was way too bright for her own good - almost aced the SAT. She got 2 Engr degrees from Stanford.

We're all designed differently, thank goodness... LOL I bet your wife is full of street smarts.??


96 posted on 10/10/2004 4:57:49 AM PDT by Gracey (NOT Fonda Kerry and his 9.10 Democrat Party mentality)
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To: aft_lizard

For some reason, you're very likable. :-)


97 posted on 10/10/2004 5:07:56 AM PDT by Gracey (AIN'T Fonda sKerry and his 9.10 Democrat Party mentality)
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To: Robert_Paulson2

It would be similar to upper stratum private colleges that screen freshmen for academic success potential. 125-130 would be the norm. The distribution curve would have its bulge relatively far to the left but that would still be to the right of the general population curve.


99 posted on 10/10/2004 9:11:39 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: SideoutFred
Similar thread posted here.

For efficiency, I'll post the same thing here I posted over there:

Anyone who says conservatives are stupid don't have a clue.

I personally scored a 1560 (800M/760V) at the ripe age of 15 (last year), but I could care less what GWB or JFK scored - their intelligence is reflected a helluva lot better in their actions.

And, under that criteria, Dubya is roughly twice as intelligent as Kerry.

100 posted on 10/10/2004 9:12:40 AM PDT by K1avg
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