I have been getting repeated requests to do a post about Angela Merkel and Katrina Pierson. Both of these posts will appear by sometime next week at the latest, but in honor of St. Patrick’s Week, I am working on a major post about a prominent Irish American.
Coming soon
18 Friday Mar 2016
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I would peg Merkel at 140-150.
* Is of average height for a German woman (but 1-2 inches higher than women of her age cohort).
* Got perfect grades at school (top 0.72%).
* OTOH, from same link above, she is remarkably geography-challenged.
* Won GDR’s Russian language Olympiad. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel#Schulzeit_.281961.E2.80.931973.29
* Got physics degree at the University of Leipzig, a respectable but not top GDR university. However that shouldn’t be counted against her because with a maxed out Abitur that can’t have been due to lack of ability.
* Got PhD in a STEM field. However, AFAIK, her research was nothing out of the ordinary.
* Though there is an online photo of her at a nudist resort which might suggest social liberal proclivities that has been established as a fake.
* Generally acknowledged to be a very successful and competent politician, managing to maintain 50%-70% approval ratings throughout her Chancellorship – despite the challenges of handling Greece and the Euro crisis. (Which I am of the opinion she did poorly on, but the German electorate electorate disagrees and that is by far the most relevant fact).
* Until 2015, LOL.
* Even so, they are still at around 50% regardless. Teflon Merkel!
Just look at what she Euro-Zone. She is influential among world leaders. Her Z-score must be phenomenal.
I bet the range you gave is very accurate.
*she has done with the Euro-Zone* oops.
you should have the IQ posted soon, no?
It is a similar situation to what we saw with Biggie Smalls’ IQ, whether to use his influence among the successful rappers or just his overall influence. I suspect that the fact that for the single Z-score you are multiplying through the successful rappers, hence largely compensating for not doing a second Z-score, allowing for said estimates to be close, I believe I also said that on the actual comment.
https://pumpkinperson.com/2015/04/20/brilliant-ted-cruz-towers-as-the-smartest-presidential-candidate/#comment-11341
Even with adjusting Biggie’s influence beyond that, he only lost 6 points. I think both methods do work pretty well.
of course though you can see in the comment that it is quite intuitive that they are the same thing (her forwarding the Euro-zone which effects people, in Trumping the other heads of state.
Youtube channel host Stefan Molyneux claims that Trump is extremely intelligent, based on SAT scores and educational achievements. Others say he’s an idiot. His speech is not overly impressive, but he never stumbles. I think he must be smart, but how smart? Pumpkin please do the analysis.
He’s already done one.
Does Molyneux have any evidence of that?
He claims that mixed-race people are biologically prone to mental illness, because when neither race has a high preponderance/dispreponderence for it, that makes sense. He never uses evidence in his videos.
A political opportunist, is what that guy is.
I don’t know what evidence Molyneux has but he makes quite specific claims. Pumpkin’s previous analysis is almost entirely based on Trump’s money, inherited but also competently reinvested. I would have expected for instance -5 points for not being liberal all the way. Plus 5 points for this https://youtu.be/46ZLAT7BY_s?t=267, and so on.
I’ll try to do a more comprehensive analysis
I think the 125 pumpkinperson gave is right.
I did some statistical research using politicsthatwork.com polls, using Trump supporters’ race/Hispanic origin and education, through this blog’s education IQ stats and that compared to the country and major parties as a whole, found on Wikipedia, and I found that they have an average IQ of 90, assuming registered voters are representative of the entire population (which I’m sure they are not). At the time, they represented 38% of the GOP, which is 23% of the United States. That would mean, assuming that if 325,000,000 people live in the U.S., that he would have a Z-score of +5.4, using this source; http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/iqtable.aspx
5.4 x 0.4= 2.16
2.16(15)= 32.4
32.4+90= 122.4
Trump would hence have an IQ of 122 on the U.S. Norms of Wechsler, very close to Pumpkin Person’s analysis of 125.
Of course it could be conservative, if the 125 given was on White Norms, but I assumed that registered voters on average, have the same IQ as the general public of the U.S.’s average, I doubt that’s true, so that’s why the estimate through that method is low.
William, the question here is Trump, not any guy who is a republican candidate.
That’s based on Trump supporters. The website broke down what percentage of, say Post-graduate educated republicans went for Trump, Bush, or Carson. I had the data from Pew for the party as a whole, so I was getting very small percentage points to divide by the candidate’s support.
Trump supporters, represented 38% of the GOP at the time, had an average IQ of 90, on the Norms where whites have an average IQ of 102.
Carson supporters, represented 11% of the GOP at the time, and had an average IQ of 103, on the norms where whites have an average IQ of 102.
I’ll try to post all my sources and my methods.
Another william,
so that means Carson’s IQ is around 132?
In the spirit of this blog, I will make a rash, only partially true statement, to draw attention to this subject.
Molyneux’s fucktard.
Youtube video talking Garbage about Ted Cruz
commenter: “You left out information that would vindicate Cruz”
Molyeux: “That’s not an argument, bro”.
First of all, yes it fucking is.
Another shill of Da Furher;
*We shall overcome*
My God.
His supporters use words they don’t even know;
(Stefan boringly babbles about Bill Cosby)
commenter: “riveting”
When would Trump have taken the SAT, 1963 or 1964?
hahahaha.
more uncommon/not really the same back then.
The more and more I see of Molyneux, I begin to htink more and more he is a pretty bad fraud.
peepee needs the big white dick.
