Half Sigma has a recent post on estimating President Obama’s IQ. Of course, he bases the estimate on Obama’s time in Harvard Law School, and, in part, guessing what Obama’s LSAT score might have been. Half Sigma doesn’t do much defending the estimate that Obama’s IQ is at least 140+; he instead appeals to a comment on one of his earlier posts. The commenter is “Tom” who is supposedly a Harvard Law School graduate. It doesn’t matter for my purposes whether or not Tom is. Here is Tom’s comment, as originally posted by Half Sigma:
If we assume that LSAT 163=IQ 130 and average LSAT at HLS is 173, then the average HLS student has an IQ of 145 or 146, since on the LSAT 10 points is one SD.
Actually I think average LSAT Obama’s year was more like 170 or 171, so IQ = 140 is probably a reasonable estimate.
As an HLS grad, I can confirm that grading is largely blind, however the magna=top 10% rule was only established after Obama graduated. His year as I recall it was more like top 20%, and it varied year to year somewhat before it was changed from a minimum GPA standard to the top 10% rule.
Law Review has a few AA spots, and President of HLR is an elected position, so this means that the mainly white and very smart editors thought highly of him but does not speak directly to his intelligence.
All that said, even assuming the worst, that Obama just barely squeaked by in getting magna and was right at the top 20% and was an above average grade grubber, he still could not have graduated magna without having an IQ well in excess of 140.
HLS students are hardly slackers and the school is about 85% white or asian, so getting to the top 20% of that group is no easy task. I did know one guy who was somewhat less intelligent than the HLS average and got magna, but he studied insane amounts, more than 10 hours a day in addition to attending every class.
If Obama got his good grades this way, it speaks extremely well of his good character and work ethic in particular contrasting it with Bush, Gore, and Kerry with their gentleman’s B- averages, McCain and his bottom 1% grades at the navel academy, Biden with his plagerism, and Palin with her long struggle to find a college and major easy enough to squeak by.
Also, comparing Harvard College and Harvard Law School IQs, only about 1/3 of HC students who apply to HLS are accepted, and many more probably don’t even apply realizing they have no chance. I can’t remember the source, but I read that the average LSAT for HC students is 163, which is tied for the highest in the USA, but still well below HLS’s standards. There is a list floating around there somewhere.
Half Sigma concurs with the above reasoning:
I agree with the reasoning above.
I think that certain commenters who keep hinting at Obama’s low intelligence either: (1) don’t understand that liberals can be highly intelligent; or (2) think that because Obama is half black he can’t possibly be that smart–this attitude demonstrates a lack of understanding of about HBD.
Now, I don’t believe Obama’s IQ is sub-par; it’s likely to be around 135-140. Thus, I don’t fall into categories (1) and (2). However, let me explain why I estimate—which is all that I’m doing—lower than what’s argued for above.
I’m going to take Tom’s comment bit by bit:
If we assume that LSAT 163=IQ 130 and average LSAT at HLS is 173, then the average HLS student has an IQ of 145 or 146, since on the LSAT 10 points is one SD.
Actually I think average LSAT Obama’s year was more like 170 or 171, so IQ = 140 is probably a reasonable estimate.
Why should we assume that a 163 LSAT score will roughly be a 130 IQ? A 166-167 LSAT score will more likely be a 130 IQ. We can see this from my LSAT-IQ conversion chart, which points out that Mensa accepts a score at the 95th percentile of LSAT test-takers; this corresponds to a 166-167 LSAT score, which further corresponds to a 130 IQ, assuming a standard deviation of 15. The law school’s entering class’s 75/25 percentile split for LSAT scores is 175/169. These scores roughly correspond to 141/132 IQs respectively. If the average is indeed a 172-173 LSAT score, then the entering class roughly averages a 135-138 IQ. If the average for Obama’s class was a 170-171 LSAT scores, then his class roughly averaged a 133-135 IQ.
Let me make a side note here. I’m continuously puzzled over the fact that many people estimate the IQs of Harvard Law school students higher than me, based on such insufficient evidence. I think such judgments are rooted in the overestimation of said students’ intelligences, or of Ivy League students’ intelligence in general. People, more likely than not, overestimate their own, and other’s, intelligence(s). People have forgotten the rarity of 145+ IQs, even in Ivy League academic circles.
Let’s move on to another bit of Tom’s comment:
As an HLS grad, I can confirm that grading is largely blind, however the magna=top 10% rule was only established after Obama graduated. His year as I recall it was more like top 20%, and it varied year to year somewhat before it was changed from a minimum GPA standard to the top 10% rule.
Law Review has a few AA spots, and President of HLR is an elected position, so this means that the mainly white and very smart editors thought highly of him but does not speak directly to his intelligence.
All that said, even assuming the worst, that Obama just barely squeaked by in getting magna and was right at the top 20% and was an above average grade grubber, he still could not have graduated magna without having an IQ well in excess of 140.
If we assume the worst, then we see little reason for estimating Obama’s IQ “well in excess of 140.” The 75/25 LSAT percentile split would roughly be scores of 173/167 (lower than the above 175/169 percentile split, since Obama’s class, according to Tom, had a lower average LSAT score), which correspond to IQs of 138/130. Obama could very likely have had an average LSAT score, worked very hard, have many favor him (he’s a very likable guy), and graduate in the top twenty percent of his peers. He wouldn’t have to be in the top quartile of entering LSAT scores to do so. Thus, I estimate that his IQ is somewhere in the 135-140 range. This is lower than the above estimate, but we should remember that even in my range, Obama is still darn intelligent.
prospero
11 April 2009
Why not ask him if you get a chance during a town hall or some other forum. His response would be very interesting at the least. I had an LSAT of 163 but didn’t waste any money on HLS. That is part of the intelligence test of getting into law school – are you smart enough to know where not to apply? But insofar as being a predictor of IQ, mine is 140 and the equivalence table puts me at 133. It is pretty worthless to use LSAT. Better is to listen to him speak. His expressed ideas are complex and he is articulate. That is how he thinks. Bush on the other hand struck me as someone with brain damage, perhaps from alcohol use. Or genetic. His father also had great difficulty in constructing sentences and in expressing himself. Reagan kept things simple because it was an act and he could not stray from the script without fabrication. If you look at the general intellect of Republicans in fact, McCain, Bush, Reagan, Dole, Ford, and compare them to their equivalents, Kennedy, McGovern, Clinton, Carter and Obama (certainly outliers in each – Nixon and Johnson), people who cling dogmatically to principles in order to govern do so because they understand life abstractly. It takes intelligence to connect what you imagine to what is really out there. It is less useful to attempt to determine Obama’s IQ, which is just a measure of his ability to work with abstractions, than it is to listen to the content of what he says and see if he lives up to what he says.
prospero
11 April 2009
typo –> 123
Patrik
16 April 2009
@prospero
Wow. That was enlightening. And so not partisan. At all. In any way. LOL.
dimples
16 April 2009
An interesting piece in its own right, which happens to give us something of a veiled assessment of Obama’s intelligence from Steven Pinker, whose informal assessment (not the same as IQ, granted) — especially in relation to the use and command of language — is worth a ponder:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/opinion/22pinker.html
Steven Pinker is a psychology professor at Harvard and the chairman of the usage panel of The American Heritage Dictionary.
“…a simpler explanation is that the wayward adverb in the passage is blowback from Chief Justice Roberts’s habit of grammatical niggling… Though the ungrammaticality of split verbs is an urban legend, it found its way into The Texas Law Review Manual on Style, which is the arbiter of usage for many law review journals… On Tuesday his inner copy editor overrode any instincts toward strict constructionism and unilaterally amended the Constitution by moving the adverb “faithfully” away from the verb.
President Obama, whose attention to language is obvious in his speeches and writings, smiled at the chief justice’s hypercorrection, then gamely repeated it. Let’s hope that during the next four years he will always challenge dogma and boldly lead the nation in new directions.”
Lover of Wisdom
16 April 2009
Thanks for posting that, dimples. I’m going to read it.
dimples
17 April 2009
Came across another interesting piece. One might say that the ‘importance’ of an ‘intellectual conscience’ is right up there with intelligence itself, though one suspects that the two phenomena are also highly correlated (0.6? 0.8?). The idea that the ‘importance’ of intellect is increasing within the minds of the public is also encouraging:
http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=e9d5f5c3-16b0-4506-ac08-2911400f4ad4
In conversation in London with the British Conservative leader David Cameron this past summer, Barack Obama lamented the frantic over-scheduling that encourages micromanagement and with it the temptation to try and “solve everything and end up being a dilettante.” Instead, he concluded, “the most important thing you need to do is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you’re doing is thinking.” His remark, not meant to be made public but caught on tape, did not make a big splash, but the importance that Obama accorded to the need to stop and think must count as one of the more revealing moments of his campaign, not least because it gives some substance to the tag “intellectual” that the media attached to him this past summer. Obama is a cunning professional politician, but he is also undeniably an intellectual, and that word–along with the cluster of others invariably summoned up: bloodless professorial elitist egghead–became a catchall term of opprobrium. But with his victory came a rehabilitation of “intellectual” as a term of pride: a New York Times columnist crowed that “the second most remarkable thing about his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual.” What would W.E.B. Du Bois say?
jacobisrael
19 October 2009
The “IQ test” at http://iqtest.com is not really a valid IQ test. While tests like GRE and SAT and TIMSS were not designed specifically to test IQ, and they do have their limitations in doing that, they are much more comprehensive and credible than iqtest.com. Being only 32 true or false questions, just randomly guessing at iqtest.com will produce an “IQ” of 102, so anyone who scores lower than an “IQ” of 102 actually exhibits negative IQ.
And that’s indicative of the problem with the standardized tests mentioned above. The SAT consists of one essay question which can be scored only by subjective means, opening it up to controversy about whether or not it’s valid or accurate. The most objective part of the test are the 225 five part multiple choice questions which attempt to measure the probability of a student succeeding in college or graduate school. About 1/4th of these questions can be answered strictly from rote memorization. For simplicity we include the results of the essay question in this part of the test. The other 3/4ths require some form of reasoning or calculation which can be measured objectively.
The base score of 200 is assigned when a student signs their name. Of the 600 points between 200 and 800, another 150 points can be gained by knowing the subjects but not exhibiting any reasoning or critical thinking skills, for a total score thus far of 350. If a person were to just guess on the balance of the five part multiple choice questions, he would on average get 20% of them correct just by chance, for another 90 points and a total score of 440.
This score of 440 is conservative. In TIMSS physics, which is scored similarly and which has questions of equal validity and depth, the score of 474 for American girls represents a score for students who would have performed better if they’d just guessed on this part of the test.
So a score of 440, and possibly a score as high as 474, is not indicative of any reasoning or critical thinking skills at all. These skills are measured only between 440-474 and 800, with many Asian students (more than 10% of them) scoring higher than 800. This makes SAT a bad IQ test, particularly when American blacks consistently score lower than this, or 431 in both SAT Verbal and SAT Math, 391 in GRE Verbal, and 416 in GRE Quantitative.
While the College Board provides the standard deviation for black students in both SAT and GRE, scores this low cannot be expected to follow a normal Gaussian Distribution. For the average to be 431, there can’t be too many students who score higher than this, because it’s almost impossible to score lower than this, so their estimate that the standard deviation, say for black women who took GRE Verbal, is 88, is the most optimistic estimate.
iow, these standardized tests all prove that it’s scientifically, statistically, mathematically, and positively impossible for Obama to have an “IQ” of 127 as he advertised–and this truly is the ultimate definition of false advertising.
Obama’s IQ is less than 72
jacobisrael
19 October 2009
THE CRITIQUE
Similar to University of California admissions where all of the following 375 students were Blacks
At UC Berkeley, where it’s called “comprehensive review,” the system is under attack. A study last month commissioned by UC Board of Regents Chairman John Moores and reported by the Los Angeles Times found that in 2002 Berkeley admitted 375 students with SAT scores between 600 and 1000, and rejected about 3,200 students with SAT scores above 1400.
The same thing happened at Harvard the year Obama was admitted, when the average SAT Math score for AMERICAN black boys and girls was 431 and 416, respectively, and whose SAT verbal scores were 431 and 437, respectively, for a total of 862 and 853. The SAT math score of 416 for the AVERAGE college bound AMERICAN black girl is equivalent to an IQ of 75 IQ points, and the lowest scoring students who were ADMITTED with total SAT scores of 600 and SAT math scores of 300 are equivalent to IQs of less than 60 IQ points. Who other than AFRICAN blacks would have been admitted to a school like Harvard when they demonstrated such low academic skills–and why would our educators be so anxious to admit them while rejecting so many students with scores above 1400? They rejected more than 8 times as many higher scoring students than the lower scoring students they admitted.
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The simple facts
In 2003, three African nations, Botswana, South Africa, and Ghana, participated in TIMSS physics. The average score for the 5,150 students in Botswana who took the test was 366, of whom 7 scored higher than three standard deviations higher than their mean or 581, and none of whom scored 604, the AVERAGE for Singapore. This makes the liberal presumption that IQ’s in Africa follow the typical Gaussian Distribution that our IQ’s follow, which is the most optimistic assumption we can make about Black African intellect. It also ignores that many of the test takers in all three of these African nations are WHITES whose brethren back in Europe (e.g., the Dutch in South Africa) have some of the highest test scores in the world. The average score for the 8,952 students in South Africa who took the test was 263, twelve of whom scored higher than three standard deviations higher than their mean or 585, and none of whom scored over 604. So also in Ghana, where the average score for their 5,100 students was 275, seven of whom scored higher than three standard deviations higher than their mean or 549, and none of whom scored over 589, the AVERAGE for Korea, whose IQ Professor Lynn estimates to be an average of 106.
Since the average score for the 6,018 students in Singapore was 604 and their standard deviation was 80, only eight of their students scored lower than 364 [the AVERAGE for Botswana], and none of whom scored lower than 284 [the AVERAGE for Ghana]. At best we can say that eight students in Singapore MAY have scored lower than SEVERAL of the thirteen highest scoring students in South Africa and SEVERAL of the seven highest scoring students in Ghana. We can also safely assume that 8 students in Singapore would have scored three standard deviations higher than their mean or 844 had the test allowed them to score higher than 800.
So out of 19,202 African students, less than 19 or 0.1% of them scored higher than 581, and NONE of them scored as high as the AVERAGE of 604 for Singapore whose average IQ Professor Lynn estimates to be 100.
It simply boggles the imagination for us to be expected to believe that Obama was the ONE Kenyan in the entire world who scored not just one but TWO standard deviations higher than a place where NO Ghanan, Botswanan, nor South African ever ventured. To claim that his IQ is 132 IQ points, yet another standard deviation higher than the impossible, is the height of absurdity. It would make Obama more valuable as a Wringly Brothers’ Circus freak than a six legged elephant. Yet that’s exactly the claim that his presidential campaign made, and you should be embarrassed to the hilt to see so many of your fellow countrymen fall for this vicious circus act.
Average IQ of Kenya is Only 71
The average IQ of Kenya is 71 IQ points, the same as for Ghana, and 1 point lower than both Botswana’s and South Africa’s of 72 IQ points. So even though Kenya did not participate in TIMSS, there’s no reason to expect that they would have performed any better than South Africa or Ghana, and plenty of evidence that they would have scored even lower. The most liberal estimate for the intellectual skills of Black Kenyans would be that they follow the same Gaussian Distribution as that of White Americans, AND that the standard deviations reported by TIMSS are representative of that for all Blacks, NEITHER of which is the case. We should note that the standard deviations for non-multicultural societies like Sweden, Slovenia, Netherlands, Estonia, Morocco, and Lebanon are close to 70 (or lower), whereas those for multicultural societies like Taipei, Ghana, Indonesia, Palestine, Romania, and South Africa are closer to 90 (or higher).
No Quadroon Geniuses in South Africa
If there’s any place on Earth where we’d expect mixed breeds (“Coloreds”, “Quadroons”, “Mulatos”, “Mestizos”, or whatever other name you’d like to apply to the offspring of Whites who marry Blacks) to illustrate an IQ higher than that of their lowest IQ parent, it’s not Kenya, it’s South Africa where 15% of the population are “coloreds” and the majority of the 4.3 million Whites (9.1% of the population) are from the Netherlands who have consistently scored higher than us on all the international tests. In 8th grade TIMSS, the Netherlands scored 35 points higher than us, but by the 12th grade they scored 560 or 99 points higher, and in PISA they scored 531 (almost as high as South Korea) which was 57 points higher than us.
South Africa’s score of 264 and standard deviation of 107 is a composite of three different races, each of which undoubtedly had a standard deviation of 70 or less. The 9.1% who are Whites most likely scored in the range of their brethren in the Netherlands, or 536 who had a standard deviation of 69. At BEST, the 15% who are Coloreds scored an average of their Black and White ancestors, and Blacks there managed to score low enough to reduce South Africa’s score to the lowest of any of these international tests:
(9.1% x 536) + 15% x (536 + X)/2 + (75.9% x X) = 264
48.776 + (80.4 + .15X)/2 + .759X = 264
97.552 + 80.4 + .15X + 1.518X = 528
1.668X = 350.048
X = 210
(536 + 210) / 2 = 373
TIMSS Math 1 SD 2 SD 3 SD 4 SD 5 SD
South Africa Whites 536 605 674 743 812 881
South Africa Coloreds
373 443 513 583 653 723
South Africa Blacks 210 280 350 420 490 560
NO African Black Has an IQ Higher Than 105!
Less than 0.00003% of any population scores higher than five standard deviations higher than their mean, which for Blacks in South Africa is a score of 560. IF all 800 million Blacks on the entire Continent of Africa follow the typical Gaussian Distribution, the MOST optimistic assessment of their academic performance, then less than 240 of them scored as high as 560, ten points lower than the 570 average for Japan who Professor Lynn estimates have an average IQ of 105. This would mean that the 240 most intelligent out of 800 million African Blacks have an IQ lower than 105, and NONE of them have an IQ higher than that. Out of 38 million Kenyans, less than 12 would be expected to score higher than 5 standard deviations higher than their mean, which would have been an even lower TIMSS Math score than 560 had Kenya taken this test (iow, much lower than an IQ of 105)!
Obama’s not even a pure Kenyan. He’s a mixed breed and most mixed breeds of most species are of lower quality and intelligence than the pure breeds (otherwise why don’t mules race in horse races)? Believing that Obama has an IQ of 127 is worse than believing that a mule will finally win the Preakness!
By what process did Obama achieve something that NO African of either race has ever achieved, an IQ between 127 and 132 IQ points as his ads claimed? Where could his White mother possibly have come from to produce such an offspring? Even worse, if she’s a Russian jew or an Israeli as the rumors indicate, then she’s from a race which scores even lower than Whites, and much lower than Whites from the Netherlands. Israel (where the vast majority of the population of her race are) scored only 442 in PISA Math, a whopping 107 points lower than Hong Kong and only 36 points higher than Mexico whose average IQ is only 87. Even IF we would expect Obama’s IQ to be an average of the IQ’s of his Black father and jewish mother, the very BEST we could expect using this logic is that his IQ is only 82, not 127 nor 133.
johny
14 December 2009
Interesting comment jacob, but you are way off regarding jews and IQ. They’re smart, the 25% of the population that are palestinians are dragging down their IQ-average. Being a mulate Obama can’t be compared directly with black africans, but the mulke-argument doesn’t really convince me.
JB
27 December 2009
Anyone still think Obama’s IQ is 135 to 140?
LOL. Stupid is as stupid does, and there isn’t any tangible performance indicator that proves this supposition right. Obama is a supremely talented con artist, but an IQ of over 135 he DOES NOT possess.
Zeus
29 May 2010
Jacobisrael said:
“Obama’s not even a pure Kenyan. He’s a mixed breed and most mixed breeds of most species are of lower quality and intelligence than the pure breeds (otherwise why don’t mules race in horse races)? Believing that Obama has an IQ of 127 is worse than believing that a mule will finally win the Preakness!”
Jacob, ever hear of Tiger Woods? 1/8 white, 1/8 American Indian, 1/4 black, 1/4 Thai, 1/4 Chinese. It’s possible that “mixed breeds” are genetically advantaged.
howard
23 November 2010
We actually have some people here who think obama is a genius?/! I’m amazed considering the choices that this ediot has made (no offense) The fact is with the scholarships available for people who had his upbringing(poor and black) the fact is graduating from a school doesnt mean you uphold within its standards.If anything given his supposed health care reform which would destroy america LITRALLY,the man is if anything below average intellegence but above the line of retardation. As many of us know the man was elected clearly because of the fact that he was black.(a choice made by our ignorant african american population).
israeliteknight
5 August 2011
There were some, um, interesting errors in the original post above which are corrected below. iow, the gap in intellect between Asians and Blacks is MUCH, MUCH larger than noted above:
The simple facts
Major correction begins HERE, updates in red.
In 2003, three African nations, Botswana, South Africa, and Ghana, participated in TIMSS physics. The average score for the 5,150 students in Botswana who took the test was 366, of whom 7 scored higher than three standard deviations higher than their mean or 582, and none of whom scored 604, the AVERAGE for Singapore. This makes the liberal presumption that IQ’s in Africa follow the typical Gaussian Distribution that our IQ’s follow, which is the most optimistic assumption we can make about Black African intellect. It also ignores that many of the test takers in all three of these African nations are WHITES whose brethren back in Europe (e.g., the Dutch in South Africa) have some of the highest test scores in the world. The average score for the 8,952 students in South Africa who took the test was 263, twelve of whom scored higher than three standard deviations higher than their mean or 585, and none of whom scored over 604. So also in Ghana, where the average score for their 5,100 students was 275, seven of whom scored higher than three standard deviations higher than their mean or 547, and none of whom scored over 589, the AVERAGE for Korea, whose IQ Professor Lynn estimates to be an average of 106.
Since the average score for the 6,018 students in Singapore was 604 and their standard deviation was 80, only eight of their students scored lower than 444 [78 points higher than the AVERAGE for Botswana], and none of whom scored lower than 284 [the AVERAGE for Ghana]. [deleted]
So out of 19,202 African students, less than 19 or 0.1% of them scored higher than 582, and NONE of them scored as high as the AVERAGE of 604 for Singapore whose average IQ Professor Lynn estimates to be 100.
It simply boggles the imagination for us to be expected to believe that Obama was the ONE Kenyan in the entire world who scored not just one but TWO standard deviations higher than a place where NO Ghanan, Botswanan, nor South African ever ventured. To claim that his IQ is 132 IQ points, yet another standard deviation higher than the impossible, is the height of absurdity. It would make Obama more valuable as a Wringly Brothers� Circus freak than a six legged elephant. Yet that�s exactly the claim that his presidential campaign made, and you should be embarrassed to the hilt to see so many of your fellow countrymen fall for this vicious circus act.
TIMSS Math
1 SD
2 SD
3 SD
4 SD
5 SD
South Africa Scores
264
317
371
424
477
530
# of students
8,952
1,421
203
12
0
0
Ghana Scores
276
367
412
457
502
547
# of students
5,100
809
116
7
0
0
Botswana Scores
366
438
474
510
546
582
# of students
5,150
814
117
7
0
0
Singapore Scores
604
684
688
728
768
808
# of students
6,018
955
136
8
0
0
Average IQ of Kenya is Only 71
The average IQ of Kenya is 71 IQ points, the same as for Ghana, and 1 point lower than both Botswana’s and South Africa’s of 72 IQ points. So even though Kenya did not participate in TIMSS, there’s no reason to expect that they would have performed any better than South Africa or Ghana, and plenty of evidence that they would have scored even lower. The most liberal estimate for the intellectual skills of Black Kenyans would be that they follow the same Gaussian Distribution as that of White Americans, AND that the standard deviations reported by TIMSS are representative of that for all Blacks, NEITHER of which would be expected to be the case. We should note that the standard deviations for non-multicultural societies like Sweden, Slovenia, Netherlands, Estonia, Morocco, and Lebanon are close to 70 (or lower), whereas those for multicultural societies like Taipei, Ghana, Indonesia, Palestine, Romania, and South Africa are closer to 90 (or higher).
No Quadroon Geniuses in South Africa
If there’s any place on Earth where we’d expect mixed breeds (“Coloreds”, “Quadroons”, “Mulatos”, “Mestizos”, “Mamzers”, or whatever other name you’d like to apply to the offspring of Whites who marry Blacks) to illustrate an IQ higher than that of their lowest IQ parent, it’s not Kenya, it’s South Africa where 15% of the population are “coloreds” and the majority of the 4.3 million Whites (9.1% of the population) are from the Netherlands who have consistently scored higher than us on all the international tests. In 8th grade TIMSS, the Netherlands scored 35 points higher than us, but by the 12th grade they scored 560 or 99 points higher, and in PISA they scored 531 (almost as high as South Korea) which was 57 points higher than us.
South Africa’s score of 264 and standard deviation of 107 is a composite of three different races, each of which undoubtedly had a standard deviation of 70 or less. The 9.1% who are Whites most likely scored in the range of their brethren in the Netherlands, or 536 who had a standard deviation of 69. At BEST, the 15% who are Coloreds scored an average of their Black and White ancestors, and Blacks there managed to score low enough to reduce South Africa’s score to the lowest of any of these international tests:
(9.1% x 536) + 15% x (536 + X)/2 + (75.9% x X) = 264
48.776 + (80.4 + .15X)/2 + .759X = 264
97.552 + 80.4 + .15X + 1.518X = 528
1.668X = 350.048
X = 210
(536 + 210) / 2 = 373
TIMSS Math
1 SD
2 SD
3 SD
4 SD
5 SD
South Africa Whites
536
571
605
640
674
708
South Africa Coloreds
373
408
443
478
513
548
South Africa Blacks
210
245
280
315
350
385
NO African Black Has an IQ Higher Than 88
Less than 0.00003% of any population scores higher than five standard deviations higher than their mean, which for Blacks in South Africa is a score of 385. IF all 800 million Blacks on the entire Continent of Africa follow the typical Gaussian Distribution, the MOST optimistic assessment of their academic performance, then less than 240 of them scored as high as 385, 185 points (and 5 standard deviations) lower than the 570 average for Japan who Professor Lynn estimates have an average IQ of 105. This would mean that the 240 most intelligent out of 800 million African Blacks have an IQ lower than 88, and NONE of them have an IQ higher than that. Out of 38 million Kenyans, less than 12 would be expected to score higher than 5 standard deviations higher than their mean, which would have been an even lower TIMSS Math score than 560 had Kenya taken this test (iow, much lower than an IQ of 105)!
Obama’s not even a pure Kenyan. He’s a mixed breed and most mixed breeds of most species are of lower quality and intelligence than the pure breeds (otherwise why don’t mules race in horse races)? Believing that Obama has an IQ of 127 is worse than believing that a mule will finally win the Preakness!
By what process did Obama achieve something that NO African of either race has ever achieved, an IQ between 127 and 132 IQ points as his political ads proclaimed? Where could his White mother possibly have come from to produce such an offspring? Even worse, if she’s a Russian jew or an Israeli as the rumors indicate, then she’s from a race which scores even lower than Whites, and much lower than Whites from the Netherlands. Israel (where the vast majority of the population of her race are) scored only 442 in PISA Math, a whopping 107 points lower than Hong Kong and only 36 points higher than Mexico whose average IQ is only 87. Even IF we would expect Obama’s IQ to be an average of the IQ’s of his Black father and jewish mother, the very BEST we could expect using this logic is that his IQ is only 82, not even 88, and certainly not 127 or 133.
Correction
7% of the population of Botswana are Whites who score similar to their brethren back in England at 545, meaning that the 93% who�re blacks scored 358. Only seven black students from Botswana scored over 456 and none of them scored over 514. Therefore, none of the lowest scoring eight students in Singapore who scored lower than 462 are likely to have scored lower than the seven top scoring black students from Botswana, meaning there was no overlap of test scores between Singapore and Botswana.
THAT is even further proof that Obama LIED when he said his IQ was 132. Many things he said of questionable veracity might be considered just matters of opinion, but THIS is a PROVABLE lie. Even if all of his other questionable claims are 100% true, that does not absolve him of this KNOWN LIE. Why LIE about this when it�s so easy to PROVE to be a lie? He was too busy lying to stop and figure out when to stop lying? He got away with so many other lies that what could possibly be wrong with one more white lie? He thought the American public was so badly dumbed down that we�d never catch him in yet one more lie? He did it just to thumb his huge Negroid nose at us honkies?
Update
We should add that for anyone in Ghana to score 676, an IQ of about 110 IQ points, he would have to score ten standard deviations (10 S.D.) higher than the average score for Ghana of 239, which is a mathematical impossibility. This is a range where only 137 students from Singapore and 12 students from the US scored, thus Obama’s claim of an IQ of 132 is a mathematical absurdity!
http://fathersmanifesto.net/obama.htm#red
israeliteknight
10 August 2011
Following is a major correction to the above figures, which painted Obama’s IQ in a far better light than reality:
In 2003, three African nations, Botswana, South Africa, and Ghana, participated in TIMSS physics. The average score for the 5,150 students in Botswana who took the test was 366, of whom 7 scored higher than three standard deviations higher than their mean or 582, and none of whom scored 604, the AVERAGE for Singapore. This makes the liberal presumption that IQ’s in Africa follow the typical Gaussian Distribution that our IQ’s follow, which is the most optimistic assumption we can make about Black African intellect. It also ignores that many of the test takers in all three of these African nations are WHITES whose brethren back in Europe (e.g., the Dutch in South Africa) have some of the highest test scores in the world. The average score for the 8,952 students in South Africa who took the test was 263, twelve of whom scored higher than three standard deviations higher than their mean or 585, and none of whom scored over 604. So also in Ghana, where the average score for their 5,100 students was 275, seven of whom scored higher than three standard deviations higher than their mean or 547, and none of whom scored over 589, the AVERAGE for Korea, whose IQ Professor Lynn estimates to be an average of 106.
Since the average score for the 6,018 students in Singapore was 604 and their standard deviation was 80, only eight of their students scored lower than 444 [78 points higher than the AVERAGE for Botswana], and none of whom scored lower than 284 [the AVERAGE for Ghana]. [deleted]
So out of 19,202 African students, less than 19 or 0.1% of them scored higher than 582, and NONE of them scored as high as the AVERAGE of 604 for Singapore whose average IQ Professor Lynn estimates to be 100.
It simply boggles the imagination for us to be expected to believe that Obama was the ONE Kenyan in the entire world who scored not just one but TWO standard deviations higher than a place where NO Ghanan, Botswanan, nor South African ever ventured. To claim that his IQ is 132 IQ points, yet another standard deviation higher than the impossible, is the height of absurdity. It would make Obama more valuable as a Wringly Brothers� Circus freak than a six legged elephant. Yet that�s exactly the claim that his presidential campaign made, and you should be embarrassed to the hilt to see so many of your fellow countrymen fall for this vicious circus act.
TIMSS Math
1 SD
2 SD
3 SD
4 SD
5 SD
South Africa Scores
264
317
371
424
477
530
# of students
8,952
1,421
203
12
0
0
Ghana Scores
276
367
412
457
502
547
# of students
5,100
809
116
7
0
0
Botswana Scores
366
438
474
510
546
582
# of students
5,150
814
117
7
0
0
Singapore Scores
604
684
688
728
768
808
# of students
6,018
955
136
8
0
0
Average IQ of Kenya is Only 71
The average IQ of Kenya is 71 IQ points, the same as for Ghana, and 1 point lower than both Botswana’s and South Africa’s of 72 IQ points. So even though Kenya did not participate in TIMSS, there’s no reason to expect that they would have performed any better than South Africa or Ghana, and plenty of evidence that they would have scored even lower. The most liberal estimate for the intellectual skills of Black Kenyans would be that they follow the same Gaussian Distribution as that of White Americans, AND that the standard deviations reported by TIMSS are representative of that for all Blacks, NEITHER of which would be expected to be the case. We should note that the standard deviations for non-multicultural societies like Sweden, Slovenia, Netherlands, Estonia, Morocco, and Lebanon are close to 70 (or lower), whereas those for multicultural societies like Taipei, Ghana, Indonesia, Palestine, Romania, and South Africa are closer to 90 (or higher).
No Quadroon Geniuses in South Africa
If there’s any place on Earth where we’d expect mixed breeds (“Coloreds”, “Quadroons”, “Mulatos”, “Mestizos”, “Mamzers”, or whatever other name you’d like to apply to the offspring of Whites who marry Blacks) to illustrate an IQ higher than that of their lowest IQ parent, it’s not Kenya, it’s South Africa where 15% of the population are “coloreds” and the majority of the 4.3 million Whites (9.1% of the population) are from the Netherlands who have consistently scored higher than us on all the international tests. In 8th grade TIMSS, the Netherlands scored 35 points higher than us, but by the 12th grade they scored 560 or 99 points higher, and in PISA they scored 531 (almost as high as South Korea) which was 57 points higher than us.
South Africa’s score of 264 and standard deviation of 107 is a composite of three different races, each of which undoubtedly had a standard deviation of 70 or less. The 9.1% who are Whites most likely scored in the range of their brethren in the Netherlands, or 536 who had a standard deviation of 69. At BEST, the 15% who are Coloreds scored an average of their Black and White ancestors, and Blacks there managed to score low enough to reduce South Africa’s score to the lowest of any of these international tests:
(9.1% x 536) + 15% x (536 + X)/2 + (75.9% x X) = 264
48.776 + (80.4 + .15X)/2 + .759X = 264
97.552 + 80.4 + .15X + 1.518X = 528
1.668X = 350.048
X = 210
(536 + 210) / 2 = 373
TIMSS Math
1 SD
2 SD
3 SD
4 SD
5 SD
South Africa Whites
536
571
605
640
674
708
South Africa Coloreds
373
408
443
478
513
548
South Africa Blacks
210
245
280
315
350
385
NO African Black Has an IQ Higher Than 88
Less than 0.00003% of any population scores higher than five standard deviations higher than their mean, which for Blacks in South Africa is a score of 385. IF all 800 million Blacks on the entire Continent of Africa follow the typical Gaussian Distribution, the MOST optimistic assessment of their academic performance, then less than 240 of them scored as high as 385, 185 points (and 5 standard deviations) lower than the 570 average for Japan who Professor Lynn estimates have an average IQ of 105. This would mean that the 240 most intelligent out of 800 million African Blacks have an IQ lower than 88, and NONE of them have an IQ higher than that. Out of 38 million Kenyans, less than 12 would be expected to score higher than 5 standard deviations higher than their mean, which would have been an even lower TIMSS Math score than 560 had Kenya taken this test (iow, much lower than an IQ of 105)!
Obama’s not even a pure Kenyan. He’s a mixed breed and most mixed breeds of most species are of lower quality and intelligence than the pure breeds (otherwise why don’t mules race in horse races)? Believing that Obama has an IQ of 127 is worse than believing that a mule will finally win the Preakness!
By what process did Obama achieve something that NO African of either race has ever achieved, an IQ between 127 and 132 IQ points as his political ads proclaimed? Where could his White mother possibly have come from to produce such an offspring? Even worse, if she’s a Russian jew or an Israeli as the rumors indicate, then she’s from a race which scores even lower than Whites, and much lower than Whites from the Netherlands. Israel (where the vast majority of the population of her race are) scored only 442 in PISA Math, a whopping 107 points lower than Hong Kong and only 36 points higher than Mexico whose average IQ is only 87. Even IF we would expect Obama’s IQ to be an average of the IQ’s of his Black father and jewish mother, the very BEST we could expect using this logic is that his IQ is only 82, not even 88, and certainly not 127 or 133.
Correction
7% of the population of Botswana are Whites who score similar to their brethren back in England at 545, meaning that the 93% who�re blacks scored 358. Only seven black students from Botswana scored over 456 and none of them scored over 514. Therefore, none of the lowest scoring eight students in Singapore who scored lower than 462 are likely to have scored lower than the seven top scoring black students from Botswana, meaning there was no overlap of test scores between Singapore and Botswana.
THAT is even further proof that Obama LIED when he said his IQ was 132. Many things he said of questionable veracity might be considered just matters of opinion, but THIS is a PROVABLE lie. Even if all of his other questionable claims are 100% true, that does not absolve him of this KNOWN LIE. Why LIE about this when it�s so easy to PROVE to be a lie? He was too busy lying to stop and figure out when to stop lying? He got away with so many other lies that what could possibly be wrong with one more white lie? He thought the American public was so badly dumbed down that we�d never catch him in yet one more lie? He did it just to thumb his huge Negroid nose at us honkies?
Update
We should add that for anyone in Ghana to score 676, an IQ of about 110 IQ points, he would have to score ten standard deviations (10 S.D.) higher than the average score for Ghana of 239, which is a mathematical impossibility. This is a range where only 137 students from Singapore and 12 students from the US scored, thus Obama’s claim of an IQ of 132 is a mathematical absurdity!
israeliteknight
3 September 2011
Ten Standard Deviations
In order for Obama to have an IQ of 122 as his campaigners promised he did, he would have had to score TEN standard deviations higher than his Kenyan Brethren!
Of ANY group, in ANY human endeavor, only one out of one billion score six standard deviations higher than their mean.Only one of 1 quadrillion score EIGHT standard deviations higher than their mean.
NOBODY scores TEN standard deviations higher than their group in ANY human endeavor.
http://fathersmanifesto.net/tenstandarddeviations.htm