U.S. presidential IQ hoax
Below is a list of US Presidents, listed by estimated IQ. The Lovenstein Institute (Scranton, Pennsylvania) released a paper on July 9, 2001 estimating the [[IQ]s of the 12 presidents who have served over the past 50 years. The reported figures are claimed to be acurate to within 5 points.
Non-partisan researchers evaluated the twelve presidents by studying examples of their unassisted written work, depth of sentence structure and voice stress confidence analysis.
Est IQ President * 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) * 099 George HW Bush (R) * 182 William J. Clinton (D) * 091 George W. Bush (R)