http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/lovenstein.html

Claim: According to a study by the Lovenstein Institute, President
Bush has the lowest IQ of all presidents of past 50 years.
Status: False.

Origins: No, this isn't a real news report, nor does it describe a
real study. There isn't a "Lovenstein Institute" in Scranton,
Pennsylvania (or anywhere else in the USA), nor do any of the people
quoted in the story exist, because this is just another spoof that was
taken too seriously.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/lovenstein.html





(Bobsprit) wrote in message ...
President Bush Ranks Lowest IQ in 50 Years of US Presidents. In a report
published Monday, the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, Pennsylvania,
detailed its findings of a four-month study of the intelligence quotient
of
President George W. Bush. Since 1973, the Lovenstein Institute has
published
its research to the educational community on each new president, which
includes the famous "IQ" report among others. There have been twelve
presidents over the past 50 years, from F.D. Roosevelt to G.W. Bush, who
were rated based on scholarly achievements, writings that they produced
without aid of staff, their ability to speak with clarity, and several
other
psychological factors, which were then scored using the Swanson/Crain
system
of intelligence ranking.

The study determined the following IQs of each president as accurate to
within five percentage points: In order by presidential term:


147 .. Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)

132 .. Harry Truman (D)

122 .. Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)

174 .. John F. Kennedy (D)

126 .. Lyndon B. Johnson (D)

155.. Richard M. Nixon (R)

121 .. Gerald Ford (R)

175 .. James E. Carter (D)

105 .. Ronald Reagan (R)

098 .. George Bush (R)

182 .. William J. Clinton (D)

091 .. George W. Bush (R)


In IQ order:


182 .. William J. Clinton (D)

175 .. James E. Carter (D)

174 .. John F. Kennedy (D)

155 .. Richard M. Nixon (R)

147 .. Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)

132 .. Harry Truman (D)

126 .. Lyndon B. Johnson (D)

122 .. Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)

121 .. Gerald Ford (R)

105 .. Ronald Reagan (R)

098 ..George Bush (R)

091 .. George W. Bush (R)


The six Republican presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of

115.5, with President Nixon having the highest at 155. President G.W.
Bush

rated the lowest of all the Republicans with an IQ of 91.

The six Democrat presidents had IQs with an average of 156, with President

Clinton having the highest IQ, at 182. President Lyndon B. Johnson was
rated

the lowest of all the Democrats with an IQ of 126. No president other than

Carter (D) has released his actual IQ, 176.Among comments made concerning

the specific testing of President GW Bush, his low ratings are due to his

apparently difficult command of the English language in public statements,

his limited use of vocabulary (6,500 words for Bush versus an average of

11,000 words for other presidents), his lack of scholarly achievements
other

than a basic MBA, and an absence of any body of work which could be
studied

on an intellectual basis. The complete report documents the methods and

procedures used to arrive at these ratings, including depth of sentence

structure and voice stress confidence analysis.

"All the Presidents prior to George W. Bush had a least one book under
their

belt, and most had written several white papers during their education or

early careers. Not so with President Bush," Dr. Lovenstein said. "He has
no

published works or writings, which made it more difficult to arrive at an

assessment. We relied more heavily on transcripts of his unscripted public

speaking." The Lovenstein Institute of Scranton Pennsylvania think tank

includes high caliber historians, psychiatrists, sociologists, scientists
in

human behavior, and psychologists. Among their ranks are Dr. Werner R.

Lovenstein, world-renowned sociologist, and Professor Patricia F.
Dilliams,

a world-respected psychiatrist.