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Thread ID: 18594 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2005-06-09
2005-06-09 10:23 | User Profile
President Bush, who is routinely derided as a "moron" by embittered Democrats, earned slightly better grades at Yale University than Sen. John Kerry, the supposed Massachusetts intellectual. According to college transcripts from the top Ivy League school obtained by the Boston Globe, Kerry was well on his way to flunking out during his freshmen year, receiving no fewer than four D's.
Kerry's intellectual deficit revealed itself in geology, two history courses and, most surprisingly for a top politician, political science.
"I always told my dad that D stood for distinction," the failed presidential candidate told reporters.
He showed a slight improvement in subsequent semesters, topping out with an 81 average his senior year. Kerry had a cumulative average of 76, or what some might call "a gentleman's C."
The president received just one D in his freshman year - a 69 in astronomy - to Kerry's four. His cumulative grade point average was 77 - a point higher than Kerry's.
Last year, when an analysis of Kerry's Navy aptitude test showed that Bush actually had a higher IQ, the top Democrat blamed his lackluster performance on drinking.
"I must have been drinking the night before I took that military aptitude test," Kerry told NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw.
President Bush suffered the same type of derision during the 2000 campaign, when critics regularly portrayed him as intellectually inferior to Al Gore.
Gore attended divinity school after graduating from Yale. But transcripts from Vanderbilt University showed that he received F's in five of the eight classes he took over the course of three semesters.
Gore left Vanderbilt without receiving a degree. "
NewsMax.com
How many other things did our controlled media lie about? :mellow:
2005-06-11 13:46 | User Profile
Intelligence doesn't always translate into college grades Gabrielle. Maybe Kerry was spending more time appeasing his Skull and Crossbones bretheren in his first year than Bush did. I still can't imagine anyone thinking that either one of these men have noble intentions for America.
2005-06-11 14:05 | User Profile
Bush is an intellectual lightweight -- that is indisputable. But I never thought Kerry was particularly bright, either.
Yale is a very competitive school, and most students who go there are much, much brighter than Bush or Kerry. Those two clowns were probably admitted because of family connections and/or wealth.
Of course there's a correlation between grades and intelligence, but it's hardly a perfect linear relationship. I think I read somewhere that the correlation coefficient between grades and IQ (not sure which test -- maybe the Stanford-Binet?) is about .55. Squaring .55 to get .3025 means that the deviation in students' grades is about 30% attributable to IQ. So there are clearly other factors at work, motivation being one of the more obvious ones.
2005-06-11 15:55 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Brian Hassett]Intelligence doesn't always translate into college grades Gabrielle. Maybe Kerry was spending more time appeasing his Skull and Crossbones bretheren in his first year than Bush did. I still can't imagine anyone thinking that either one of these men have noble intentions for America.[/QUOTE]
Perhaps,Brian. LOL! :wink:
2005-06-11 17:20 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler]Bush is an intellectual lightweight -- that is indisputable. But I never thought Kerry was particularly bright, either.
Yale is a very competitive school, and most students who go there are much, much brighter than Bush or Kerry. Those two clowns were probably admitted because of family connections and/or wealth.
Of course there's a correlation between grades and intelligence, but it's hardly a perfect linear relationship. I think I read somewhere that the correlation coefficient between grades and IQ (not sure which test -- maybe the Stanford-Binet?) is about .55. Squaring .55 to get .3025 means that the deviation in students' grades is about 30% attributable to IQ. So there are clearly other factors at work, motivation being one of the more obvious ones.[/QUOTE] Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Bush's first college choice was Texas U and, after being rejected, his Daddy pulled some strings with his alma matter and got him into Yale. While Yale and Harvard are near impossible for a poor kid to enter, if your name is Bush, Kennedy or Kerry it doesn't matter if you have a 90-100 IQ.