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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-08 10:57 PM
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50. He's 47, but he reads on the level of 52 year old
IQ tests are unreliable, inconsistently designed, each carrying various levels of cultural bias, and mostly measure test-taking ability.

As a professional academic raised by a PhD mom, Barack Obama is culturally advantaged in taking IQ tests. The IQ score itself doesn't measure anything worth knowing and isn't even a reliable predictor of how well he'd do on a differently designed IQ test.

The best indicator of how well he'll do as president is how well he did organizing a movement to get himself elected president.
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