Re: Simplex wants Union workers to install there product

[G. Morgan <usenet_abuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

JoeRaisin wrote:

>I'm not trying to be political - just asking how you can continue to
>speak to something as a given when I have seen no evidence to support
>your speculations.  I am, however, open to be enlightened...


This was widely studied when the hoax email about Bush having a 91 IQ and
Clinton with 182 or something.  Those numbers are completely inaccurate and
Snopes has debunked it.

An actual scientific paper* was published and widely believed to be accurate.

I could not find the text in it's entirety, but here is the relevant page with
the estimates (Clinton has about 20 IQ points on GWB) (Oh, and John Quincy
Adams is estimated at a whopping 175!):

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OqiKkTj5eBg/SXU8QOhKUZI/AAAAAAAAAZw/AgCyPxiwR7E/s1600-h/PresIQ.bmp
from:
http://inductivist.blogspot.com/2009/01/having-high-iq-for-prez-aint-that.html


Full text here for $$$:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118627966/abstract


Interesting read:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article634182.ece


* Article Information
Presidential IQ, Openness, Intellectual Brilliance, and Leadership: Estimates
and Correlations for 42 U.S. Chief Executives
Dean Keith Simonton
Political Psychology
Volume 27, Issue 4 , Pages511 - 526
2006 International Society of Political Psychology