Since we've made all kinds of remarks here lately about the president's intelligence, I just thought I'd note that Simonton has a piece out that comes up with IQ scores for every president (yes, feel free to smack the methods around). According to that work, Bush is not stupid. But his IQ does appear to be lower than just about every other president of the last 100 years (maybe not Harding, but other than him ...). As to whether or not IQ is the proper measure of intelligence or stupidity, well that's a whole other discussion.
Oh in case you were wondering, the president with the highest IQ was (apparently) John Quincy Adams.
Posted by armand at August 24, 2006 03:54 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics