Bush IQ low on presidential league

[struggle4progress]

Roger Dobson

GEORGE W BUSH has the lowest average IQ of all but one American president since the start of the 20th century, according to the estimates of psychological researchers ...

Bush’s openness score of zero — compared with 82 for Clinton and John F Kennedy, 95 for Abraham Lincoln and 99.1 for Thomas Jefferson — “placed him at the very bottom of US presidents”.

This assessment can only be considered tentative because of lack of available evidence on a sitting president, but it is corroborated by a measure of Bush’s “integrative complexity”. Simonton says: “Low scorers on integrative complexity can only see things from a single perspective — their own.”

Bush’s score, he says, is comparable to “extremist Islamic fundamentalists in the Taliban and Al-Qaeda leadership — with the notable exception of Osama Bin Laden, who is lower still” ...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2350564,00.html

[knowbody0]

1. that explains everything

[El Supremo]

2. Bullshit!

How can you measure ganglia?

[Generic Brad]

3. He belongs in the league of ordinary gentleman

And that's being generous.

[DeadManInc]

4. What would one expect from a knuckle

dragging neanderthal neocon.

[rasputin1952]

5. I beg to differ with the last line:

"...he is by no means a dimwit.”

Could have fooled me...:D

[BlueJazz]

6. I personally think Mr. Bush is very smart and perceptive

for a Monkey