Every President's Education
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- In Mr. Beat's longest video yet, he goes through in detail the education of every American President in history. Specifically, he breaks down their schooling and even looks at supposed IQ scores. Who do YOU think the smartest American President was?
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For the record, I did not say who I thought was the smartest President in U.S. history in the video. I feel it's better for YOU to decide. You're smart enough to figure it out.
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Here is the Dr. Simonton study: www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcampbel/documents/SimontonPresIQ2006.pdf
I don't think he ignored his bias enough, to be honest, especially with George W. Bush. Bush is smarter than folks give him credit for.
Some of you might be upset I didn't attempt to use Simonton's algorithm to figure the IQs of Obama, Trump, and Biden. There are several reasons why I didn't do this. First, I am not that good at math. Second, I didn't want to make the American political climate even worse by attempting to figure their IQs out. Third, perhaps it makes more sense for YOU all to figure out their IQs based on his study/algorithm. After all, I think you all are smart enough to tackle it, eh?
Who do you think was the smartest American President in history?
Hey Mr Beat can you do an episode on the "presidents" before washington Peyton Randolph-Cyrus Griffin?
@@patriotadam4091 Great suggestion!
@@iammrbeat Thanks. That made my day
cant wait to watch the vid
@@iammrbeat Also would love one on Edith Wilson and Thomas Marshall. Credit Mobilier and Pettycoat affairs would also make amazing videos.
JFK once had a dinner with all of that year's American Nobel Prize winners and said: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
That's so cool.
@@French408 And likely true.
I remember that quote , however, I don't consider Jefferson a truly educational man. MANY of the reasons why interstate congressmen bicker and fight among each other today is because of his beliefs in controversial debates!! How in God's name you call THAT a United States??
@@eddieparker945 ... Satire?
TJ was uncommon smart...
"Intelligence is no guarantee of lack of stupidity" -- Carl Sagan
Amen to that. I've known plenty of people with Master's degrees & PHD's that appear to be dumber than a bag full of rocks. On the other hand, I've known several dropouts that were smarter than all the people with degrees combined. Usually seemed a lot happier too.
Just ask Biden.
@@shefchenko111 Do You think Biden is intelligent?
@@MrAschiff Not really sure.
(glares at the Embargo of 1807)
I don't think you could possibly be dumb with all the studying you've done. I taught college English for 34 years and found that education has little to do with intelligence. Thank you so much for educating me a lot. I'm 72, by the way.
Decades of studies have repeatedly proven that education correlates with intelligence. Either you were a terrible teacher or are just parroting the "education has nothing to do with intelligence" crowd who failed or weren't smart enough to get into higher education. Education leads to critical thinking and problem-solving, the barometer for intelligence.
education doesnt make you smart .,,, it just makes you educated
I agree somewhat. I finished college with a 3.4 GPA but I was lazy. At law school in Idaho I only had a 2.51 GPA, I played too much. But I passed the hardest bar exam in the country first try even though I was working 48 to 52 hours a week until 3 days before the exam.
Some people can be dumb without studying. Look at MAGA. Their rally cry America is not great.
Jimmy Carter missed being valadictorian because he and some other seniors pulled a prank that would be nothing today. I don't remember what it was, but he wrote about it in one of his books "An Hour Before Dawn ' which was about his childhood. I listened to the audiobook recently. I have seen his IQ be about 8-10 points higher. He paints watercolors and oil, is a carpenter, obviously writes books, poetry, preached and taught Bible classes, was a Naval officer working with nuclear power, and a business man. He had blacksmith skills, animal husbandry, and a zillion other skills learned on the farm. I probably left out things he could do.....
WOW! I am surprised that he took out time to be President!
@@mammawlee Definitely an amazing man. I forgot he spoke Spanish also. I enjoyed one of his books that was about the revolutionary war in the southern US. Most things are written about the northeast and north. It was historical fiction but his history was as accurate as I could determine. My family was living in what was North Carolina but became Tennessee a few years later. They still have an apple orchard there.
Oh an hour before dawn is a great book.
@@dwainschumer9298 I listened to the audiobook and I really gained even more respect for Mr. Carter from everything I learned.
According to Eisenhower, Eisenhower was the smartest because he was smart enough to surround himself with smarter people
And he was from Kansas. 🌻
Good Answer
@@jennifermorris6848 oh, oh no
That's a lot of smarts
Wisdom is different than intelligence.
"Never confuse education with intelligence" -Richard Feynman
You are so right! Because with all of that book sense and no common sense,you are only a Educated Fool. Intelligence is the knowledge of knowing, and life experience using your common sense to figure out whatever needs to be.
Been saying that forever. My professors disagreed. 😂
@@blackmagic8115 your professors are the ones propagating the schooling system that’s practically bootcamp for factory workers
My sentiments exactly.
"I never said that" -Richard Feynman
My father dropped out of school at the age of 13 in 1946 to drive a gravel truck to help support his family. At the age of 17 he joined the U.S. Air Force and spent 22 years serving his country, also serving a tour in the Korean war and two tours in Vietnam. After retiring, he became a firefighter for another 20 years. During that time he invested in real estate and buying houses and flipping them. When my dad passed away, he left my mom millions. Never got passed the 6th grade and nothing more than a GED when he was 25 years old. The smartest man I have ever known. Knew business, knew how to negotiate, could fix any engine, big or small. Knew quite a bit about most anything. Goes to show that you don't have to be formally educated to be intelligent or succeed in life
A lot of truly intelligent people never got the education that would have benefitted them.
education doesant nake you smart, it just makes you educated
Well said
He was a hard worker and spent most of his life serving others, He sounds like a truly great man.
I’m sorry you lost such a wonderful part of your life. I can’t imagine how a “formal education” would have made him a better man. You were blessed with a good father.
Maybe it would have been interesting to mention the fact that President James Garfield was the only American president who authored an original proof of a mathematical theorem - not any theorem, but probably the single most famous theorem of all, the Pythagorean Theorem.
Jefferson donated his library to create the Library of Congress. A well-read person is usually bright and curious.
To put all of their IQs into perspective, the average IQ is 100. An IQ of 124 is still pretty damn good.
That is why stuff like 160 is either bullshit or put into the perspective of the 100 score of that time. Since most people back then were dumb as shit because there was no public schooling. Just saying, the chances that so many presidents have 140+ scores, are so slim that one could say it is impossible. Books or higher education won’t increase someone’s base IQ... essentailly speaking, an IQ is the car and willpower is the engine. A big engine won’t fit in a tiny car, while a tiny engine wouldn’t be enough to let the car ride.
Edit:
What I meant to say that IQ scores move with public intelligence. Schooling makes everyone smarter on average, so that's why your base IQ wouldn't move as much.
If 80% of people were considered dumb by lack of schooling, it would mean that the smartest 30% would still score above 100 IQ.
If all people have access to all or none, then it won't have any effect on IQ scores. That's what I meant to say with "books and higher education" won't by fact increase one's IQ. There are people with a master's degree who still average at 100, but finished it by willpower. Just like a 140 IQ who barely finished high school. Those people exist.
Edit 2 (on presidents):
The chances of 4 presidents in a row have 140+ IQ scores... are about 1×10^(-18) [calculation by (chance)⁴]. That's why I call bullshit on those estimations.
With addition of the USA only having about 95 people with 140+ IQ scores to begin with, based on a normal distribution. So let's say, between 50 and 200 people is a fair estimation.
@@WritingGeekNL so Ppl were dumb cus nonpublic schooling and schooling won’t increase your IQ. You just said a lot of nothing.
In all honesty, I don't think a "merely average" IQ is a disqualifier for the Presidency, or even makes you path to the Oval Office more difficult. But a low IQ is. It's probably a lot tougher to succeed in politics if you're significantly below average.
@@WritingGeekNL wait you can absolutely increase iq through schooling
@@Warrenmitchum You *can* improve IQ scores through schooling.
Ideally IQ was meant to be a consistent objective measure of a person's innate intelligence, but in reality it doesn't work like that.
My uncle quit school in the third grade but he knew how to add, multiplication, division and do calculations in his head no note pads no pencils.
A great wise man.
This was a fun watch -thanks for pulling this together!
I'd always thought Ford looked like a stereotypical sports movie football coach. Now I know he actually was!
Now if only he had the acting ability of Reagan! 😁
Gerald Ford was a man placed by fate into an enormously challenging role, one that he had never sought, to try to bring healing to the country in the wake of the Nixon era and also deal with the stagflation that was prevalent then. He was reserved but he also wasn't dumb, by any stretch.
@@parisire Gerald Ford was a good president.
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Ford shouldn’t have pardoned Nixon… Ford should have known how corrupt that would look, for Nixon to resign and his VP to pardon him as soon as he became President
@@parisire What does that have to do with him looking like a football coach?
My grandfather only had a 4th grade education and I saw him build a barn with no leftover lumber and I was very impressed it was a beautiful barn.
was a smart barn builder
My father had grade 4 education, learned english from comic books, could do basic arithmatic in his head faster and more accurately than others could with pen and paper, pocket calculators were not common back then, could figure out weights beyond scale limits by adjusting scale weights (confirmed on larger scales) could estimate live weights of cattle-not easy believe me, could figure amount of grain in various sized/ shaped bins, again in his head. People of his day were much less reliant on calculators .
Carpenters learn how to calculate area, perimeter, sq footage, volume, maximum span and load of various beams, by doing the work as apprent8ces under journeymen and master carpenters.
@@ravarga4631 those days if you was super good at something you got a job why a corporation sometimes will hire a experience worker over a college degree idiot. my dad had 10th grade level got a job in oil fields were fingers was cut off and if you didn't return you was fired, no unemployment or medical help at all , while my grand father helped start the unions in the coal mines and the owner put a hit out on any one trying to form a union.
My father. Studied for 2weeks before Grandpa put him on the farm to work The teacher pleaded to let him learn to read !
Nope. He was needed on the farm
Grew up moved to the USA
Remember him rebuilding the. Engine on the Ford Econoline
Taught himself English
Bought fixed and sold property had over 40units. And bought. A Chevy Silverado cash for his 70th birthday
That's America hard work pays off
Love the Presidential photo lineup - with the punchline at the end.
I always taught my sons, never pass up the opportunity to learn something new, YOU NEVER KNOW HOW IT MAY SERVE YOU IN THE FUTURE.
Lincoln was the smartest. Self-taught yet highly knowledgeable, with a command of the classics, AND an excellent judge of people, interpersonal relationships and politics.. Tack on his unparalleled rhetorical skills and I think it is game over.
Good answer. He was the man we needed in 1860, very few presidents could have navigated us through that time.
John Wilkes Booth absolutely robbed us of his leadership at the most CRITICAL point in us history. I absolutely believe he was the man to heal the nation after the war and a lot of human suffering could've been avoided had he not died.
I’m very knowledgeable but my IQ. Is 119 so that doesn’t make me the smartest . There are to many people responding with subjective answers . Again a very smart man said Richard Nixon objective not subjective the man was a strange man but he could grasp things quickly that a sign of intelligence, gathering knowledge is not intelligence .
@@pax6833 it seems that all the best leaders are robbed from us at the most critical times. Lincoln, both Kennedys, MLK
I like your explanation
@@pax6833 Wrong, Lincoln was a tyrant. He suspended habias corpus and greatly expanded presidential power. Just because things kinda worked out dosen't make it right.
My step father had to quit school in the 8th grade in 1944. He lived in rural Missouri and his father died so all of his siblings had to find jobs to survive. He was smart despite his 8th grade education. He got a real life education and it was valuable. He ended up being a truck driver and made around 100,000 per year.
Wtf?
When I got out of the military service I joined the Postal Service, worked there 35 years and retired. I started studying the stock market and now I'm a multi millionaire, only a high school degree plus some college.
@First Last no you don’t have to go on. You’ve already shown that your an ass. So how much money do you make per year? Furthermore, your comment is grammatically incorrect.
We need more men like your father.
TRUMP IS THE SMARTES, BIDEN IS DUMBEST....GO TRUMP 2024 !
I think it’s the clever and almost undetectable way you use “air quotes”… amazing.
Mr. Beast please do a video exactly like this one about the education of all the first ladies.
mr beast
Somehow it doesn't surprise me that Grant had a (relatively) low IQ. He seemed like a very straightforward man. Not much trickery or subtlety, but a very, very good man.
Have you read his memoirs?
I haven't gotten to them yet, although from what Chris (Vlogging Through History) keeps saying, they are a fascinating source of information and insight from Hon and for the entire period.
@@iammrbeat I read them last year, my history teacher was very proud. Grant remains one of my favorite presidents, and a big inspiration for getting into politics.
@@RickyLeik Grant was a good man and a superb army commander but a terrible politician. He is lucky that Lincoln was politically savvy and basically relied on Lincoln to shield him from army politics (which he also sucked at). That is my takeaway anyways.
Grant could've succeeded if he'd had a better cabinet and bit less trusting. It also didn't help that Johnson poisoned the well for him.
Ulysses s grant launched an illegal campaign against the plain indians and killed thousands of natives
I'm going with Garfield. I would travel to a parallel universe just to see what his presidency would have been like.
He would have been A-tier no doubt
@James A. Garfield Society Yes, someday we'll see another great and sharp man like Garfield be in the presidency.
I disagree, Garfield *hates* monday
Sharkronical tru
But he’s fat off lasagna.
Amazing. One has an I.Q. of 132.5 and he is in the upper part of the pack. Another has an I.Q. of 130.5 and is in the lower half. LOL. What a difference 2 points makes.
I Love it when you use the dictionary as a prop in your videos. That’s the same edition of the American Heritage Dictionary that my parents had when I was growing up.
It would be really interesting to do an analysis on how difficult the bar exam has been over time. A lot of presidents studied on their own and the passed, and I’m curious as to how much easier or harder it would be to do that nowadays
Some states are easier than others, and in some states, if one graduates from the state university’s law school, one need not take the bar exam.
@@sandragruhle6288 I appreciate the clarification!!
TRUMP IS THE SMARTES, BIDEN IS DUMBEST....GO TRUMP 2024 !
My Grandfather studied under a Judge. And passed the Bar in the State of Michigan in 1930's
Had a long carrier.
@@JohnCunningham-sy5ug what did his carrier carry?
Theodore roosevelt was a unique kind of intelligence. He was absolutely fascinated by many many subjects too many to name.furthermore he was profoundly inquisitive with a enthusiasm to learn. For that alone i would put him at the top not because he knew more than everybody but he desired knowledge more than everyone. Dont forget he went to the Amazon well past his prime with his son to study the rainforest. The level of dedication he had of throwing himself in soemthing for knowledge is admirable. Thats a different kind of intelligence because he did fairly risky things which some would say isnt intelligent but he was willing to go farther than most would, ill take effort over talent any day.
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It is better to try and fail, than to have never tried at all
He was said to read a book a day. That's smart and he still had time to be president or the various offices he held before.
My Grandmother said Teddy was the best President of her lifetime
I dont care for theordore much as a president, perhaps as a man i would. Nonetheless when you noted "He was absolutely facinated by many subjects, too manu to name" it reminded me of myself. As a young boy, as far back as i can remember i took up learning entrepreneurship. At about 12 i learned quantum mechanics (the theory not the math). Due to the amount of things ill just start listing rather than say when i took an interest in each. Engineering, organic chemistry, computer science, multiple programming languages, computer building, motherboard building, electronics, engines, planes, boats, logistics, organization, military(tactics and strategy), cars(engines but also downforce, weight and such), production, philosophy, psychology and a whole lot more. Surprisingly im only 17.
Please go down to Plains and do one of your next biographies on president Carter!! He’s, WITHOUT A DOUBT, my favorite president!!! You can see his childhood home, Plains High School is now a museum, and the international headquarters of Habitat for Humanity is really close to both the childhood home and the high school! Really close! Also, drive up to Atlanta and see the Carter Center!! They have done AMAZING work! But definitely read his White House Diary!! It’s very illuminating!! He tried to pass universal healthcare during his presidency and Ted Kennedy was INSTRUMENTAL in sinking it!😡 He has done a lot of good in the world!!
Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt are awesome guys wish we had more people like them.
A disproportionate number of them liked reading, went to top universities and studied law. A big difference with the early presidents appears to be that although the early presidents also tended to study law they also studied the classics, philosophy and theology.
@notfiveo if Trumps IQ. Is 65 then all president should have a 65 . Because he was the best president for getting this country back on its feet since Abe Lincoln. It’s not a popularity contest it’s as Jack Web said a endless thankless job that has to be done . And he did it . Look how much damage the wrong person in office can do in as little as two years. David McCullough says John Q Adams would have had the highest IQ. Milton Friedman said Richard Nixon had the highest IQ . Since they didn’t have IQ tests back in the 1800 s we can only speculate . The number is subjective anyway. But Trump was and hopefully will be again our next president. God bless America.
@notfiveo He read a comic book through in one sitting. He has been working his way through Mein Kampf for three wives, he may reach the end.....someday!
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A classical education is a clear indication of intelligence.
@@williamjackson5942 okay, that first sentence took me out
I heard a story once that Garfield would do this party trick where he'd write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other. Until another president can do that the question of smartest is settled.
Smartest ? Garfield
Most impressive ? Lincoln (self taught)
Hardest working? James K Polk
As you said, a party trick. I would be more impressed with writing books still worth reading. Being able to throw a baseball with either hand doesn't automatically make one the best pitcher. Or switch hitting doesn't automatically make one the best batter. It just means one is ambidextrous.
Making him ambidextrious doesn't make him the smartest anymore than a switch hitter makes you the best hitter in baseball or being able to speak more than one language which evidently Jefferson was fairly fluent in French.
So he was able to use both hands and do two things at once.
@@michaelluna1968 Ambidextrous in this case is being able to write your native language with either hand at a time. How many hitters hit from both sides at the same time? And being bilingual is not any where near the same thing as being ambidextrous.
2:50 But that just leads me to wonder: Is this dude's first name Dean, or is that his title?
That's the problem when you consult someone in an educational field. Kinda like bringing up a law expert whose first name just happens to be Judge.
My guess for the dumbest prez? The man who used “bigly” religiously.
And Just took credit for blocking out the sun 😂
"He solved the meaning of life, made a fully functional quantum computer when he has 9, and graduated from Duke, Harvard, and Princeton." This gave him an IQ of 41, putting him in the lower half of the pack.
41 likes as well
An IQ of 41 belongs to someone who can’t dress himself, can’t prepare food, and may not be able to answer questions like: how old are you
Trump?
????
Who?
Got to admit that the IQ scores sound inflated, especially since 130 is considered a high IQ score with 100 being average ...
Then again, it makes sense that those who can successfully run for President (or Vice President, or just the House of Representatives in Ford's case) would be among the smarter people in the overall population.
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and Donald Trump.
@@Compucles What about AOC? Proof that IQ does not equivocate to common sense.
@@josephlindquist506 AOC is actually pretty smart in regards to her colleagues in Congress, who are generally pretty stupid. I just wished she did more reading into the political theory aspects of socialism. A lot of socialists such as myself are very critical of AOC because her lack of knowledge or even interest in the theory portion and instead she focuses on pragmatic solutions of reformism.
@Derben Leyla your impression of GW Bush from the public perceptions of his intelligence do not equate the stated opinions of those who dealt with him in one on one situations. Time and again I’ve watched or read interviews with people who expressed a poor opinion of his intelligence and personality before they actually met him, but then, after their encounter, came away impressed with both of those facets of the man. Yes, there are many stories of things that he did when he was in college with alcohol being involved that would not suggest a high level of intelligence or maturity, but a lot of very intelligent people do some very stupid stuff. 😉😉😉
You and me both.
Of all the presidents, Don has the exceptional ability to right the wrong and vice versa, father of twister
Yet he apparently has a lot of fan boys spamming this comment section
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It's interesting how both a janitor and teachers were elected President, both a cheerleader and a football player. Both the uneducated and the highly educated.
One of the beautiful things about democracy.
@@iammrbeat love your optimism
I didn't know Trump was a janitor.
….and then there was the game show host. Yike!
At least we know who is the dumbest...
Yes, this video was kind of long, but I enjoyed it. Having said that, I think it’s important for viewers to remember that a person’s ability to make positive contributions to society is not limited to their intelligence (especially not their estimated intelligence). A lot of “intelligent” people have done some despicable things in human history, and a lot of “not-so-intelligent” angels have committed great acts of leadership through kindness and bravery.
I’d be interested to see your take (a video) about the nicest presidents and/or the most courageous presidents, and it’d be interesting to see how you measure those qualities.
Whatever you decide, keep up the great work!
That is all true. Also, a dulcet-toned, pied-piper of a leader is not necessarily good for our nation, just as an arrogant, pompous, unpleasant leader is not necessarily wrong in their policies. How a leader makes us “feel” about him or her is not necessarily an indicator of his or her capability or vision for our nation.
@@jimferris9447eh some policies have personality requirements. There is a reason authoritarianism tends to be a cult of personality based on bloviating strongman archetype. But when youre dealing with the more rational/democratic type part of the spectrum then yes, their policy is what matters.
Education and intelligence are two different things. Some of us earn a degree and learn about a topic and can assimilate our learning. Some others get a degree but barely and possibly by getting by on their family laurels; ahem, wealth. Self education shows someone who wants to learn even if going to a university isn't in their sights.
There is a marked difference in education (aquiring knowledge) and wisdom (applying knowledge). A person with both skills is rare indeed.
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
JFK knew his history!
I believe he said this at dinner with Nobel prize scientists too, God JFK was such a Chad
Lincoln has been the smartest President, without question. Given his level of formal education, the fact that he became a successful attorney and then President and then the leader of the country during the Civil War, when he took it on himself to learn military tactics, evaluate generals, plan for Reconstruction and so on, says it all.
We've put the Presidents in order of IQ in this video. Enjoy. czcams.com/video/YAJ-0iIhULo/video.html
Yes!
@Eric Schiltz Lincoln was plenty smart enough to realize when he needed to make a change and had the guts to do it, in spite of, e.g. McClellan being popular.
Lincoln doesn't even come close in intelligence when compared to, say, John Quincy Adams. But he was a great president.
him losing the war geatly falls under his generals of the time. theres a video explaining why the beining of the civil war was a disaster for the union
"Some of the smartest people I've ever known dropped out of high school" you and me both Mr Beat
Is there a way to plug in the last few POTUS' information into the Doctor's formula to get those I.Q.'s?
Always remember: Education =/= intelligence, curiosity is the foundation of one's intellectual growth, and it's not about how intelligent you are, but how you apply your intelligence and what you manifest in the real world.
Well and attending prestigious schools is tied more to money and connections connections connections than it is with skill or intelligence. Considering how many rich and famous people have been caught in school admissions scandals I wouldn't be all that surprised if this isn't a recent thing.
Really, coming from money goes a long way to obtaining a prestigious education.
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@@andmicbro1 Having intelligence makes higher education possible
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@@pyrotechnicalbirdman5356easier, but possible also comes with money
Many of them got into Ivy League universities thanks to their family's wealth, not their previous academic achievements, and you can imagine that their grades were heavily influenced by the same factor. Following that tradition, they even bought the presidency.
Just like now. Only selections are heavily based on gender and race. The bias still remains. Only the criteria has shifted.
At that time, the ivy league wasn't "prestigious"
Yeah the Ivy League is overrated
@@misswinnie4.8 Presidents made the Ivy League more prestigious based on what I know
You can't buy the presidency. You have to convince pple to vote for you.
Education is a tool to spread ideas, as a function of our intelligence and it’s promotion within our inter-species community ❤
Can we admit that Powers deserved to be a lawyer as much as Filmore if she indeed taught him. Props to her!
Most of the IQ tests on this list have to be purely estimated from their writings and recorded speeches. Verbal abilities are actually only part of what makes up IQ, though they do correlate well with predictive academic success. The first standardized IQ test didn't show up until the early 20th century and was created by Binet.
100 is the average IQ and that range goes from 85 to 115. It may surprise people that the average IQ of a college graduate is 115. That does not mean that people who never went to college can't have high IQs, though. Many people, even high school dropouts, have been known to have high IQs. Also, it should be noted that a high IQ does not automatically mean that the person is wise, kind, or otherwise makes positive use of their potential.
My teacher used to always ask me, would you rather be intelligent or wise? I was confused at first because I always thought those two things were synonymous. But then he would explain that being intelligent was the ability to learn and that being wise was the ability to apply that knowledge to live in a meaningful way. It changed my life.
@@pyrom3744 Intelligence is to know that the street is one way. Wisdom is to look both ways anyway before crossing.
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It has been said by many that Lincoln's emotional intelligence was at a whole 'nother level. It certainly took a high level of moxie to bring his greatest rivals within the party into his cabinet because he wanted the best.
Here is a quote to live by: Real Knowledge is the ability to understand the extent of one's ignorance when talking to anyone about anything.
Man these pictures are amazing
Whenever I’m asked what I’m going to do with my life because I get suspended for blowing up the school toilet, I’ll tell them “Kennedy did the same thing, and he became president of the U.S
Exactly!
Kennedy also had a crap ton of connections and father's money too
Wait, he did?
Yes, he also got shot.
You sir are not john f kennedy
Well, I'm partial to those who are self educated. The reason being is that even though I dropped out of school in the 11th grade, I also enjoyed reading. I taught myself BASIC (early 1980s) and DOS. I also have been interested with electronics thanks to Radio Shack electronic kits. In the 1990s, I learn how to build computers just by watching and asking questions. Of course I would not learn how to really operate a computer until 2000. Today, I teaching myself how to write code and scripts and using open source OS. And due to me becoming a SATCOM operator during the last 5 years in the Army, I got a great head start learning networking which I continue to learn to this day and program my type of end-to-end encryption/decryption. And I repair communication devices (smart phones. However since they are more than just a phone, I call them communication (comms) devices), computer, and other consumer electronics. I also experiment with solar cells and energy storage devices in the attempt to build a better energy storage device that allows for fast charging while being more efficient and longer lasting. But I suck at spelling however thanks to technology, there is spell check.
So, all the former POTUSes that were self taught / educated are the ones I have great respect for.
Isn't IQ relative to the overall intelligence of the population? So it would make sense for a lot of the older presidents to have a really high intelligence/IQ when they are compared to a population with very low levels of education?
I wrote basically the same thing, and I completely agree that IQ is likely very skewed for older presidents.
Appreciate you becoming more fair of late
It's worth considering that up until the early 20th Century, it was NOT necessary to attend College to become a Lawyer or a Doctor (Medical).
PLUS, Public Schooling did not become compulsory until 1918 in the US
Grants high scores in math one of reasons for his entrance to West Point. A seemingly very practical, steady commander, who asked opinion of his staff, before handing them their assignments. He detached his forces from supply thru swamps, encirculed and came up on the other side of the enemy at Vicksburg. His resulting underrated victory, at similar time to Gettysburg battle, split the Confeds in two, and denied their passage and supply on Mississippi River.? Gen Grants army later faced off against Gen Lee, who grad 2nd in class of 1829, w no demerits, in West Point.
the bar which shows how often people skip to that point in the video also says a lot
Best part of this whole video....🎶 "connections, connections, connections🎶👍😅
The smartest person I met in my family is my grandpa. Pop pop came from Italy as a farmer. He knew how to take stuff apart, grow plants, fix anything, And was a history buff too. Also really loved classical music and was musically gifted. He had to do a GED exam when he wanted to become a citizen And he hated math very much. No college degree but smartest man I ever knew personally.
I know a lot of book smart people from working in pharmacy and from when I went to college... But I still think my grandpa was the smartest. Accolades don't necessarily equate to smarts.
I am sure your grandpa is lovely but you respect him. It's confirmation bias and your opinion of course.
I love the use of the term "pop pop", your grandpa sounded like a great man
I find it interesting how little formal education used to be needed to become a lawyer. Then, as now, the majority of politicians are lawyers and yet almost every congressman and president prior to about 1930 or so, became a lawyer basically by apprenticing for experienced lawyers.
Lawyers as well as other professional could get apprenticeships. If you worked for a lawyer for a number of specified years and could pass the bar exam you could be an attorney. Experience was as important as education
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Noooooooooooo, the ability to acquire and apply knowledge is memory! Intelligence is the ability to solve new problems without prior knowledge of how to solve them.
The smartest president with regard to education I think would be Jimmy Carter. When the 3-Mile Island disaster occurred he knew exactly how to fix the problem since he had a background in nuclear science.
He was a nuclear physicist
I thought he was a peanut farmer.
In the navy he was executive officer aboard a nuclear (or "nucular", as he'd say) submarine. To qualify for that post he also had to qualify as a nuclear engineer. Only after retiring from the navy did he become a farmer.
The trivia about Columbia giving Teddy Roosevelt an honorary degree in 2008 made me laugh. The only reason they did that was to save their institute’s reputation. It is completely redundant to give a dead man a degree that was refused him when he was alive. (And, it’s a little of an insult to give him an “honorary” one, implying that he never actually earned it, when in all probability he did, he was unusually intelligent). In fact, Teddy died in 1919, so if they’d waited another decade they would have been approaching the centennial anniversary of his death. That is a ridiculously long time. This is where the saying “better late than never” borders on the edge of impracticality. More like “so late it almost was never.”
What is the significance of the bell curve that pops up with the chime at the end of each president's section? The low numbers of that bell curve are 55. Is that a bell curve of the general public's IQs?
Thank you. Wonderful presentation!
Intelligence, education and wisdom. Having one does not guarantee someone has the others.
On about 80% of these it seems "estimated IQ" = historical reputation
Kennedy and Carter are underrated in how smart they are.
Reagan, Trump, Jackson, Harding, and Andrew Johnson are probably the least…how do I put it? They’re not very intellectual curious or nuanced. They don’t really go beyond surface level in a lot of their policies and ideas.
So is Obama
@@iammrbeat Obama was a fantastic speaker. Very eloquent. I don't think people are doubting his intelligence. But you'd know I suppose.
@@iammrbeat Clinton is often portrayed as a goof which is peculiar considering how brilliant he is and well-rounded his education is. I’d toss him in there too
@@tylarjackson7928 very under-rated in my view. Democrats align with the poorest people so he will get more criticism. Taking on gun control was a massive task.
Obama is only good when in front of a teleprompter because of his excellent voice.
If we judge a fish by how well he climbs a tree….well……
Paraphrasing Einstein.
Never knew that Woodrow Wilson had dyslexia, which definitely made reading very difficult.
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By IQ
16:50 Ulysses S. Grant: 120
7:58 James Monroe: 124.1
26:16 Warren G. Harding: 124.3
39:25 George W. Bush: 124.9
12:33/16:22 Zachary Taylor/Andrew Johnson: 125.7
14:46 James Buchanan: 125.9
9:27 Andrew Jackson: 126.25
23:58 William Howard Taft: 126.9
26:50/34:13 Calvin Coolidge/Gerald Ford: 127.1
29:25 Harry S. Truman: 127.6
32:04 Lyndon B. Johnson: 127.8
27:30 Herbert Hoover: 129.8
36:17 Ronald Reagan: 130
37:02 George H. W. Bush: 130.1
11:53/22:05 James K. Polk/William McKinley: 130.2
20:46/33:10 Grover Cleveland/Richard Nixon: 131
30:10 Dwight D. Eisenhower: 131.9
21:30 Benjamin Harrison: 132.2
5:14 George Washington: 132.5
10:06 Martin Van Buren: 133.4
10:39/17:46 William Henry Harrison/Rutherford B. Hayes: 133.9
14:01 Franklin Pierce: 134.8
13:06 Millard Fillmore: 136
11:21 John Tyler: 136.2
28:31 Franklin D. Roosevelt: 139.6
15:20 Abraham Lincoln: 140
7:15 James Madison: 141.25
18:43/19:58 James A. Garfield/Chester A. Arthur: 141.5
23:01 Theodore Roosevelt: 142.3
5:55 John Adams: 142.5
24:53/35:22 Woodrow Wilson/Jimmy Carter: 145.1
37:56 Bill Clinton: 148.8
30:51 John F. Kennedy: 150.7
6:24 Thomas Jefferson: 153.75
8:30 John Quincy Adams: 168.75
40:27/41:53/42:50 Barack Obama/Donald J. Trump/Joe Biden (Unknown)
JFK got VERY ordinary marks at every school he went to. He was ALWAYS compared to his brother Joe?? No way did he have a 150+
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@@Dorian-wf1ivcan you read?
@987mattj yes so what is your problem huh 🤔
There’s a fine line between intelligence & common sense. If you have both I believe your in a class by itself.
Not really a fine line, a broad, bold, thick line. Also no guarantee of ethics/morals, or effective leadership in crisis situations.
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I find it funny. Wrong you're. Remember. It literally just means you are.
There is no fine line between intelligence and common sense. You cannot have one without the other. Anyone having common sense is automatically intelligent and the same can be said in the reverse.
Amen
thanks for the hard work putting this video together... that was fascinating... I assumed most of those men would have had wealthy to Up middle class back grounds.... only to realise they were mostly dirt poor...it is their internal drive and ambition... and advice of peers...gave them access to high office..... what it's all about
.. amazing
Can you do a video of every president occupation prior to being in politics. Even though most were lawyers
Hard for me to reconcile the IQs of Lincoln and Grant considering Lincoln's brilliant Cooper Union lecture, Gettysburg Address and 2nd inaugural speech; and Grant's autobiography is considered the best of all presidents in terms of literary quality. Many other presidents I think also deserved much higher IQs than ascribed.
it’s cause iq is bullshit lol
I feel like it’s one of those things that can only be accurately measured in the present. I’m still glad Mr. Beat made this video though.
I mean it's because IQ is kind of meaningless. I have a higher IQ than most of these guys and I'm a fucking idiot. I once accidentally set my hands on fire. IQ only really tests how well you can take an IQ test. And these guys didn't even take one people are "estimating" them which idk how because it's been a while but a lot of the questions were basically just logic puzzles.
IQ can't reflect things like persuasiveness, skill at rhetoric or philosophy or literary flair. It's actually stupidly narrow as a definition of intelligence and just... So flawed. Trying to quantify intelligence in any way will always leave something out that we can't really measure but that we as a culture definitely consider intelligence.
maybe bc IQ doesn’t mean anything 😭
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Bruh. I’m getting addicted to this CZcams Channel. Thanks for your dedication for making those brilliant content, Mr. Beat.
I don't know why we don't give James Madison the credit he deserves. He drafted the US Consitution, which at that time was one of the great achievements of mankind.
very well done.
IQ tests have to do with cultural experience. I remember in 7th grade the teacher raising his eyebrows before telling me I was “above average”. I attributed it to my interest in reading all kinds of books, childhood travel and an inquisitive mind. The other children read only what was required, did not have families that traveled and which would have shown them different outlooks and people, and did not delve into the whys of things. I believe IQ tests show result of experience and interest in other than the obvious.
I knew that President Kennedy had a pretty high IQ, but deciding to to ride in a convertible that day was not the smartest decision he ever made. Those first four or five presidents (Washington, Jefferson, Madison and The Adams's) were probably some of the smartest people in our history. To create a system of government (from scratch)that has lasted this long. And Lincoln taught himself. I have always admired his determination along with his intelligence. I also read a lot as a child and was curious about so many things. At home, I was made fun of because I was different. I think there is something to having different cultural experiences, but that is only one part of the whole picture. I had undiagnosed ADHD, as a child and my report cards all ways said, "not working to her potential". I wish they had known more about females with ADHD back then.
Every way to measure IQ tests show they fail. People who receive more education score better. People who practice score better. People who speak the instruction language natively score better
IQ tests reliably measure whiteness. They're racist AF.
I am 142 white, which basically says I'm really good at white cultural bullshit, but not much else, necessarily.
It's not a good measure of anything important. The reason we only know the IQs of W and the dead POTUSs is because it's political inanity to discuss this bullshit.
@@georgiannamiller7764 It is a myth that the founding fathers created our system of government out of whole cloth. They had the example of the east coast American Indian society and how it aligned its nations. How decisions in those nations were reached. They also had other examples of how some successful institutions had functioned. Their biggest contribution to our system of government was the rejection of the Divine Rights Of Kings doctrine. They no longer accepted that power was bestowed on any man by an act of God. They did, however, believe that some men were more qualified than others to lead. Voting was reserved to White Men that owned property. Men of color, women and anyone less prosperous than an upper middle class living were not to be involved in the government of their country.
Hamilton and Jefferson were both well read men, in both a classical sense and in correspondence with other liberal thinking men of their time. Who was smarter will remain a debate. But both brought a huge amount of knowledge and curiosity to the development of this country. Remember also that both we very young when all this happened. Fresh minds, fresh ideas.
The best ideas are the ones distilled from a fair, hardy debate that truly examines and falsifies the questions asked and the answer given. Hamilton and Jefferson, and their peers did just that in the lead up to the revolution and creation of the United States.
@Georgianna Miller, I was also made fun of at home for being the "weird one." I was very curious (and critical) about everything but did not talk much to avoid bullying. I know how it feels not being able to be yourself at home growing up, it sucks.
Now, I have a very happy and sucessful life. And I cannot say the same thing about them.
29:28 that picture of Truman as a kid is probably the sweetest thing ever
I couldn't resist to include it. :)
Harry S Truman's middle name was just "S". It wasn't just an initial of a longer name.
Then he dropped 2 atom bombs. Lovable...
@@jgarbo3541 tbf they didnt know the Soviet union's invasion would convince the Japanese government to surrender so fast, they thought the war could last for years
He looks the same as a kid as when he grew up
What we need of a president is not intelligence but values, ethics and morals…
“Who once blew up a toilet seat” that just sounds like something that Fred and George Weasley from Harry Potter would do
Friend of mine from hs barely graduated but he was smart enough to find something he was really good at and dedicated himself too that and put smart ppl who he trusted around him and has turned that into a small fortune.
Wow
Good on him 👏 👍 👌
In terms of what is considered raw IQ intelligence, Teddy Roosevelt. He had a photographic memory, sped read a book a day, and wrote a few. Had many other positives. A remarkable man.
In leadership, IQ is the wrong question because the desired quality is wisdom. Who was the wisest?
Degrees are important. So is continuous effort at self education and learning new things.
So Ulysses Grant was both the hottest president AND had the lowest IQ? Our first Himbo president!
Dear Mr. Beat,
Thank you for your sense of thoughtful inquisition. These men of stature faced insurmountable difficulty and many performed their duties despite the many socio economic challenges and the global crises which each battled against.
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I think Franklin Delanor Rosavelt (FDR) was pretty smart because he knew how to make tough decisions under pressure. During his presidency there was both the Great Depression and World War 2.
He also had excellent people working under him.
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And the Spanish Flu pandemic recovery. Banking de regulation and Wall Street fraud crashed the stock market. Republicans did all that damage like today. Roosevelt did the New Deal to recover from the Great Depression.
Let’s not forget Eleanor she played a large part of his decisions making. Most women did but never got the recognition because this country has been based on white Rich republican men with power money making the decisions. Not smart for the country. Look at where we are today. Trump has brought out the crazies and with his lack of the constitution with no empathy or sympathy makes him an evil sadistic person. Every president should have a well rounded background/education. A background ck needs to be put in place to be president. We can’t have stupid, selfish no it alls running any office. Trump is the stupidest president ever because of his big mouth. He just doesn’t know when to shut up. So there.
He also had the good sense to marry Eleanor Roosevelt.
Knowledge is knowing what an electric fence is. Intelligence is knowing not to p%^ on it.
Well, we certainly know who the dumbest is now don’t we. 😆 I once heard that Bill Clinton would complete the New York Times crossword puzzle, which is a great challenge, in record time.
Of course a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart, it just means you're really good at performing the IQ test.
It's more a measure of how fast you can learn concepts. Matters little to none of you don't try to learn and someone with lower (still over 100ish) does. Because the lower IQ can still learn it, will just take longer.
Well I think that you can be smart even if you struggle with getting a good result on the IQ tests, but if you DO get a good result that means at least that you are probably well over average in regards of IQ.
Gloria...come on.
@@barryshanley5882 nah it's true man. Intelligence proves to be much more complex than we thought and also very plastic. The original makers of the IQ test are even rumoured to have deprecated it.
graduating top of your class doesn't mean your smart, just means you are good at doing tests... 🤣
Awesome videos man! Enjoy learning a bunch of stuff on your channel. 🤙💯
Please Add; What Years of Each on Office ?
Great video! Unless they took some IQ tests its hard to say. Forensic psychologists can only estimate so much. Why no IQ scores for some of the last ones, especially for Obama? A deeper explanation of the IQ bell curve (statistically speaking) of the population would have given better insights to the average person. I work in special ed. and know this but a lot of people don't.
I like how you can estimate George Washingtons iq but not the 3 most recent presidents. Also, I wonder how much Grant's iq estimation suffers from how he was drunk so often.
To address the first concern, it's probably because, as he stated at the start of the video, he used Dr. Simonton's study that was published in 2006 for the IQ info. So Biden, Trump, and Obama naturally wouldn't be included.
Edit - he also mentions in a comment he pinned at the top that he deliberately chose not to use Dr. Simonton's formula to adjudicate those last three's IQ's.
Which of course ignores the fact that IQ is a bullshit measure anyway.
Curiosity sometimes trumps judgment (no pun intended). Probably best not to publish an estimated IQ rating of our last 3, especially not the current president.
@@mjinba07 Biden gotta have like a 2 IQ the man doesn't even know if he's alive or not
@@DirtyDev Paid troll or just a hobbyist?
@@DirtyDev not going to lie that actually made laugh
My Father dropped out High School in 1940’s. Joined the Navy and became Naval Intelligence. He was high intelligence and read all the time.
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My brother never even went to high school but is a absolute genius unfortunately he has OCD and ADHD which is why he didn’t do well in school. Also my father is a genius being the first man to directional drill into a volcano, and my cousin is a legit genius according to IQ test and such. He started college when he was 15. I am the dumbass of the family. I worked on the slope and built houses. I just do construction work and sometimes do landscaping because life is boring without work. I could of retired when I was 30. I will never retire just like my father and brother.
Oh wow… only seen a couple of your videos. Surprised to see the KU sign in the background. Don’t know if I can take you seriously now. 😅