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Originally Posted by troutman
How about an IQ test?
Trump jokes about Clinton failing the bar exam in DC.
I'd like to see his LSAT score.
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LSAT doesn't translate as neatly into IQ as a lot of people want to imagine. The concept of a general intelligence is pretty complicated.
I think this would be an awful idea. Gosh, the whole thing is meritocratic enough. Probably best just to guess.
Trump went to Wheaton, I believe, so he definitely has an above average IQ.
Same with Bush, based on his SAT scores, we know that he has an IQ in the 90th percentile.
JFK was tested in his teen years, and scored somewhat below that.
Most world leaders have to be above average in terms of intellectual abilities, but if it got into some pissing match about a few IQ points, the whole thing would get even more ridiculous.
A president also has a perfect social environment designed to boost his IQ. George Bush had Karl Rove, for example.
The problem, of course, is that somebody probably needs a highish IQ to be President, but the position will tend to favour different types of intelligence - probably working memory and verbal intelligence.