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You do find low IQ people in high places — they’re the low IQ people who have inherited wealth and social connections to those places.
by ilikehurdles 8y ago
You do find low IQ people in high places — they’re the low IQ people who have inherited wealth and social connections to those places.
- repolfx 8y agoI would be fascinated to know the IQ scores of all the US presidents, but I assume no such dataset exists. Being the president would seem to be a good example of a form of success in which IQ would not be that important relative to other personality attributes, like understanding what people want and how to (re)phrase it well, persistence, bravery, being able to spot strategic mistakes of opponents etc. It's not clear any of these attributes would be classically considered "intelligence" in the IQ sense, but they're all clearly valuable for politicians to have.
- xyzzyz 8y agoYou can estimate that by looking at their SAT/ACT scores (which are intelligence tests to a large degree) and converting the percentile to IQ norming (mean 100, std dev 15). For Obama you get IQ 130, for George W. Bush 123.
- LinuxBender 8y agoNot to mention, narcissistic sociopaths that rise to high positions of power because of confidence, hubris and taking a cavalier approach on life. Not all of them are genius.