Talk:U.S. Presidents IQ hoax
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[edit] POV?
See talk:List of US Presidents by estimated IQ/Delete to discuss deletion of this article
snopes says it's a hoax Quincy 07:54, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- and it seem awfully POV. All democrats beat all republicans except Richard Nixon? Gentgeen 08:09, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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- Went to the "non partizan" think tank's website, and found this report, that starts as follows,
- "Bush rests comfortably after surgery to implant pacemaker in brain
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- "Thanks to a device similar to the one in Vice President Dick Cheney's heart, the nation has healthy, clear-thinking, plain-speaking leaders again.
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- "WASHINGTON -- In the second White House health scare in little more than a month, doctors Wednesday night implanted a sophisticated pacemaker in President Bush's brain."
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- I'm now going to list this on VfD
Oh, how I wish I could change "a partisan attack" to "an admittedly plausible partisan attack" :) Tualha 01:56, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Off topic
I see that some cleanup has been done on the article after I added a short note about the non-hoax 2006 study. But I feel that the amount of detail and "see also" links to nucular and stateregy are not really appropriate for an article about this topic. The non-hoax is already discussed in Public perception and assessments of George W. Bush. Han-Kwang 15:35, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Is there real or at least estimated IQ for Clinton?
This wiki article starts out as a hoax on U.S. Presidents but from then on talks only about George W. Bush. What about Bill Clinton’s 182 IQ was this also faked or where is a legitimate source for it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.211.48.218 (talk) 05:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC).
- That was also fake. The IQ of Clinton according to the real study was (on average) 149. I added the info to the article. --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 13:36, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] removed misleading line/notes
"Still, the author concluded that Bush “is definitely intelligent … certainly smart enough to be president of the United States”."
Given context, this line implied something that neither the report, not the article said. This line is quoting an article (that's the reference used here) that's quoting the actual report, but both the article and the report and very harsh in terms of Bush's intelligence, and the way we're quoting this implies that the article and/or the study is much kinder to Bush than it actually is.
"Bush’s score, he says, is comparable to “extremist Islamic fundamentalists in the Taliban and Al-Qaeda leadership — with the notable exception of Osama Bin Laden, who is lower still”."
The article is good though, especially for people who can't access the report online. So I'm changing the bottom to Notes and References--most of what's there are footnotes, and I'll leave this article as an additional reference. Miss Mondegreen | Talk 09:28, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
