http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/the_barack_obama_test.html
YAHOO: Who has a higher IQ Barrack Obama or George W. Bush?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080710201803AASiRbH&show=7
JUSTANSWER: What is the IQ of Barack Obama?
http://www.justanswer.com/questions/19ivb-iq-barack-obama
JUSTANSWER answers the question with a best guess answer from
http://www.kids-iq-tests.com/d-prez.html
We know Obama is dumb as a brick, but really,
shouldn’t his test scores be posted ... ping?
It doesn’t really matter when you are an America hating socialist... which he is.
After all, our new President-Elect B. (whose middle name, according to McCain, must NEVER be spoken) Obama will take on ANY PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER, OR DICTATOR--ANYWHERE, ANYTIME--when it comes to one-on-one on a basketball court!!! /s
Half of what he thinks it is.
“Help me out if you find information about his IQ and other test scores.”
Don’t you pay attention to the news? He’s brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. The nation has seen few in his intellectual category. And the same for Michelle, brilliant and stunning beautiful and stylish.
Actually, I’ve asked in a thread or two if anyone knew Barack’s SAT scores. That information is normally out there fairly early about nominees. I’m not buying the brilliant part. Seems like a lightweight to me, due either to a poor education or a subpar intelligence and/or common sense. No nominee has ever made near the gafffes that he’s made. And usually the ‘clarifications’ just confuse things more.
I’ll give him a 1016. :^) His knowledge of World History should just about take us there.
He is probably as smart as Al Gore. Remember in 2000 we were constantly told what a brilliant policy guru he was. Then came the first debate with President Bush. Gore performance that night was mostly strange noises coming from his microphone, because he didn’t understand that it was turned on while Bush was answering questions. Funniest thin I ever saw in my life.
The last link in your post admits they don’t know his LSAT score, but assume it is the average of all Harvard Law students! From that flimsy starting point, the conclude that he could qualify for MENSA.
Woodrow Wilson’s IQ was possibly the highest of any President, and he gave us the income tax, the Fed, US entry into WWI, the League of Nations and many other things we still regret.
Based on the fact that he doesn’t/didn’t know how many states are in the Union (which I and a nephew I recently asked both knew by age 8), I’ll hazard a guess that Hussein’s verbal SAT would have been a bit higher than his math SAT.
It’s not good to know your own IQ. I once learned mine and since then have felt like an underachiever.
Sailer doesn't offer a number for Obama, but the commenters discuss it. One comment, taking issue with another's estimate of 120, remarked:
Law school grades are incredibly correlated with IQ. It's nothing like grades in college classes. It would be incredibly difficult for someone with a 120 IQ to be Magna at HLS as Obama was.Don't have the numbers for Obama's class, but Harvard has always been an elite law school. The most recent LSAT data reports a 25th/75th percentile split of 169-175. A 169 is 97.55 and a 175 is 99.67. Those are percentiles of people who take the LSAT; ie, college graduates planning on going to law school. Law school grades are strictly curved and based on hihgly g-loaded blindly graded "issue spotting" exams. I really cannot emphasize enough how different this is from simply getting As as a political science undergrad.
Obama was in the top quarter of his class at ruthlessly competitive Harvard Law School. It's impossible to argue he's not very bright. He's not just eloquent or charismatic.
I am generally unimpressed with Obama’s scholarship. As best I can determine, there is not a whole lot of there there. Whenever Bambi talks about a subject I know well, it becomes evident that he does not know what he is talking about.
The punditocracy is confusing his gift of gab and ability to read off a teleprompter with high-level intelligence. FGS, Al Sharpton has a gift of gab. I would not count on either one to solve any problem involving public safety.
I would guess Bambi’s IQ to be in the 120-130 range.
I have read Michelle’s thesis. Why anyone considers her brilliant is lost on me. Besides, she has said one dumb thing after another on the campaign trail.
I can be precise about Mensa qualification and an LSAT score. Mensa qualification requires a score in the 98th percentile on a test of general intelligence. For instance, old SAT and ACT scores are acceptable, but not scores since about 1990 because these tests have become more about knowledge than IQ.
However, many other widely used tests are still accepted, including the GMAT, MCAT, and LSAT. Mensa normally charges a fee of $40 to evaluate “prior evidence” of these (or other) accepted test scores, which must be either original score report documents or official school transcripts containing the test name and required scores.
The minimum LSAT required is 662 (pre-1982) or 95th percentile after that. The GMAT score required is also 95th percentile. 95th percentile rank on these post-graduate admission tests is equivalent to 98th percentile rank in the general population.
Mensa has a “lawyer special” during the month of August this year. Mensa will evaluate an LSAT score at NO charge.
One point above a rock.
He only gets the 1 point for being still above room temperature.
Heck, even Forrest Gump scored too high to get into a Sociology program. Obama and his missus are both from the bottom of the barrel.