Don't hate bush because he's dumb. These are
the IQs of the last 12 presidents....
- 147 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
- 132 Harry Truman (D)
- 122 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
- 174 John F. Kennedy (D)
- 126 Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
- 155 Richard M. Nixon (R)
- 121 Gerald Ford (R)
- 175 James E. Carter (D)
- 105 Ronald Reagan (R)
- 099 George HW Bush (R)
- 182 William J. Clinton (D)
- 091 George W. Bush (R)
The link for the study is
here. And yes, I know it's an
Urban Legend (but
it IS fun).
Still, if it were true it would be a perfect
example for statistical analysis!!!
- H0: Republican and Democratic presidents
over the past 50 years have identical IQs.
- H1: Either Republican or Democratic
presidents over the past 50 years have higher/lower IQs (this is a two-tailed
test).
- Here's the data in Stata Data format:
- Here's the description and preliminary stats:
- Here's a box and whisker plot:
- And the data analysis (Mann-Whitney U test- The
nonparametric equivalent of a t-test or two sample ANOVA):
