President?s IQs

In a report published Monday, the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, PA, detailed its findings of a four-month study on 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 from F.D. Roosevelt to G. W. Bush who were rated based on:

1. Scholarly achievements
2. Writings that they produced without aid of staff
3. Their ability to speak with clarity, and
4. 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 IQ order:

182 William Jefferson Clinton
175 James Earle Carter
174 John Fitzgerald Kennedy
155 Richard Milhous Nixon
147 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
132 Harry S. Truman
126 Lyndon Baines Johnson
122 Dwight David Eisenhower
121 Gerald R. Ford
105 Ronald Wilson Reagan
098 George Herbert Walker Bush
091 George Walker Bush