> You had me until this pointless political diatribe.

William - and others - my apologies if I didn't make myself clear. 
That was meant to be a joke. My humour doesn't always translate well 
:-(.

It was indeed "pointless" for practical purposes, but perhaps not from 
a humour point of view. My point was that, spread across the entire 
population, the average person essentially has an IQ of 100, by 
definition. As I assume that the IQ of both Republicans and Democrats 
is more or less normally distributed (despite probable claims to the 
contrary from both groups about the others :-) ) then ANY person with 
an IQ > 100 by more than a tiny amount will have an IQ higher than 
most Republicans and most Democrats. As George Bush's IQ (and mine) 
is, by any normal measure, somewhat > 100 (regardless of how useful or 
meaningful this may be) then my statement is (probably) true. It also 
applies to most people on this list. (ie You are not likely to be here 
if you are not at least SLIGHTLY more intelligent than the average 
person. There may be some people on this list with IQs < 100 or even 
<< 100 but the numbers will be few.

As to my remark that ' ...George Bush is not a dumb bunny even though 
he may act like a dumb bunny on occasions ...' - I'd hope that he 
would agree with and be reasonably pleased with that observation. We 
all have our bad moments, and GB and I are certainly no exceptions to 
that. There have been quite scurrilous 'reports', masquerading as 
factual surveys, published on the web which purport to show that he 
has an IQ of slightly < 100. Jinx published a link to a rebuttal of 
one such. In fact his IQ is higher than that of a significant majority 
of people. Note that this statement would be true of a person with an 
IQ of 110, 120, 130 or higher, so by itself it doesn't tell you much. 
I believe I have a reasonable idea of his IQ, based on publicly 
available information. It's not at Newton/Einstein level, but it's 
respectable by any standard. What the implications of this are not 
relevant to the actual figure.

Again, no political diatribe intended. We don't have either 
Republican's or Democrats here so it's less of an issue :-).

> ... such tests are online and I have taken them.

I've seen many online tests and done a few for fun but, alas, none 
I've seen have met the criteria I listed. What I want a test which is 
certifiably acceptable if taken under controlled conditions but 
available to be taken under uncontrolled conditions. The Mensa 
'workout' offered by Jinx probably comes as close as one is liable to 
get.




        Russell McMahon 

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