Is it true that Bush's IQ is 91?

"but it worked didn't it ? "

Not really. I never said that he couldn't recognize a bad leader. It is just that HE was a bad leader as well. Thus, it is funny... because it is a case of pot calling the kettle black.
 
Carter was the worst President in the past 50 years... he is just happy that Bush came around to give him a run for the title.
 
Carter was an honest man in a slime pit. His own party would not even support him becuase they knew he would turn them in if caught in underhanded dealings.
 
Really US??? I thought a leader was a person who INSPIRED others to follow him/her.

Also, Carter managed to get things done... they were just done poorly. Not to say he didn't have his bright spots (treaty with Israel and Egypt, appointment of Volker), but his economic policies were horrid. His foreign policy wasn't much better. His IDEAS were bad... whether people followed him or not... the IDEAS were still BAD.
 
Carter did not inherit a good situation like Bush did. Rememeber wage and price freeze ? Whip Inflation Now ?, etc....
 
AnyOldIron said:
IQ tests are simply tests of the ability to carry out that particular test, intelligence is something much more fluid than that. I'm very sceptical of them, even though I usually do well.

However, if Bush has an IQ of 90, those that conduct the tests consider this to be only 10 points above borderline mental retardation.

Speaking of retardation, MENSA... Why do intelligent people require a group and badge to tell them how intelligent they are?
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Agreed, on all counts. Intelligence tests measure something, we just don't know what it is, exactly. And they're piss poor for cross-cultural studies.

To answer Cypress' original question, it sounds to me as if someone was joking. What makes it funny is the fact that it's almost believable.
 
Intelligence tests measure something, we just don't know what it is, exactly.

They measure the ability to do that particular test.... lol
 
OrnotBitwise said:
Intelligence tests measure something, we just don't know what it is, exactly. And they're piss poor for cross-cultural studies.

They measure potential for academic success, basically. I took a course on testing, to appease my mentor's plea "please take one clinical course!", and we were taught to use the WAIS-R more for diagnostic purposes as part of a battery of tests, than as a measure of "intelligence".

Remember that these are standardized tests, and though recently some attempts have been made to eliminate the cultural bias inherent in the earlier tests, I'm not sure how successful this effort has been. With respect to the scoring, apparently scores above about 140 become meaningless, because the test was never designed to assess those aspects of truly higher functioning.
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Cypress said:
I heard someone on the radio say that Clinton's IQ is 182, Jimmy Carter's is 175, and George W. Bush's is 91.


Sounds like B.S. to me. Are president's IQ's even generally known and available to the public?
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Are you certain that whomever it was that gave bush's IQ wasn't dyslexic?
 
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