Lorie at PoliPundit excerpts a piece from John Hawkins: Bush Is Actually Pretty Brainy:
Let's look back to George W. Bush's college days. You know, when he got his undergraduate degree from Yale (1968) and an MBA from Harvard? Is Yale really pumping out that many cretins? Can just any imbecile off the street get an MBA from Harvard? Apparently, there are a lot of liberals who believe this to be the case.
Then there's George Bush SAT score of 1206 (which is "the equivalent of a 1280 under today's dumbed-down scoring system").
That's a superb score. In fact, as "Linda Gottfredson, co-director of the University of Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society, told United Press International: "I recently converted Bush's SAT score to an IQ using the high school norms available for his age cohort. Educational Testing Service happened to have done a study of representative high school students within a year or so of when he took the test. I derived an IQ of 125, which is the 95th percentile." In other words, only one out of 20 people would score higher."
But, to put in perspective how little this question really matters, consider this: I got 1450 on my SATs. Does that mean I'd be a good president? No way in heck. What then if I'd gotten 1600? People too often confuse intelligence with wisdom.
Bush has both in spades.
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
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