[Echo Talon]

With President Clinton leading the class at 182.

BS! i'd be suprised if he could get 125

[Freee-dame]

With President Clinton leading the class at 182.

I remember when Chelsea was in about 8th grade. Ex42 said that he could no longer help her with her math because he had not had room in his schedule for "higher math" when he had been in school. I interpreted that to mean that he had not gone beyond Geometry...at the most. His transcripts have never been revealed. He is a genius at politics and self-promotion. That's the extent of his thinking skills.

[hunter112]

BS! i'd be suprised if he could get 125

Well, when you add the brains in both heads...

[Reactionary]

"i'd be suprised if he could get 125."

An IQ of 125 is nearly two full standard deviations above the average Caucasian IQ of 100.

Anyone with any understanding of IQ distribution knew this "study" was a raving idiocy at the time it was published.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

With President Clinton leading the class at 182. BS! i'd be suprised if he could get 125.

More like 80.

"Stupid is as stupid does."

[MikeA]

And even if this were true, I still value good judgment and good character in a leader over theoretical intelligence and book smarts any day. Clinton had no sense of judgment, and a deeply flawed character. Whatever Bush's failings, he is possessed I believe of impeccable judgment and good character. Those two things to me are FAR more valuable in a leadership than someone being able to determine which shape doesn't fit in with the other 4 or at what point 2 trains traveling from opposing directions at two different speeds will meet up.

[ModelBreaker]

BS! i'd be suprised if he could get 125

What, interns?

[MainFrame65]

With President Clinton leading the class at 182.

BS! i'd be suprised if he could get 125


I am a certified Mensa test proctor, and I administer Mensa admission tests several times a year. You might be surprised, both at some of the people who do pass the tests (at the 98th percentile) and some who don't. But from what I have observed, I don't believe that Clinton (either of them, actually) is Mensa material.

Politically, our members cover the spectrum, and our most public member is probably Geena Davis. I wish I could specify someone whose opinions I admire, instead of her.

[Prost1]

Yeah, a guy who does not know what "is" is.

Real bright!

And 125 would be about right. Hillary pulled him up that high.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Clinton certainly has a facile mind; he's incredibly glib and seems to understand and grasp concepts easily. He's clearly intellectually lazy and not particularly given to reflection. It's his character that bothers me. It would not be true to say that his character borders on the pathological; it's clearly crossed the border and is somewhere south of Vera Cruz and heading further south.

Gore, otoh, is ponderous and exhibits the tendency of people who struggle with basic concepts to cleave tenaciously to some single insight and inflate it all out of portion, drawing unwarranted and unsound conclusions. IOW, he is a natural bore cultivated to monumental status by a fawning media. He is a weak and opportunistic character.

President Bush can be painfully inarticulate, but he is certainly above average in intelligence, while hardly a genius. He would have been modestly successful in his own right, but would have been very unlikely to have aspired to high political office except for his heritage. His one outstanding trait is his character. I believe he puts principle before ambition, and never weighs his own interest, but always tries to advance the right, as it is given to him to see it. What more can we ask for?