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 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 G W 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
Professor Patricia F. Dilliams, a world-respected psychiatrist.