What is barrack Obama IQ?

Answer 1

He has not released that information; it should be noted that few presidents have made such scores public.

From the information that is available, we know (or can surmise) the following:

• The average IQ for a college graduate with a bachelor's degree in the U.S. is 115. Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University, so the assumption is he must have had at least an IQ of 115.
• Barack Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School; such academic honors are only awarded to students in the top 10% of their class.
• Obama's IQ has been estimated anywhere from 110-165. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as editor, and later as president of the Harvard Law Review; which is an extremely prestigious position. Obama also taught at the University of Chicago for 12 years, a top-ranked university in the United States. However, these achievement-based estimates fail to account for the possibility that Obama was a beneficiary of affirmative action, which based on collegiate averages would lower his estimated IQ to the 115-120 range. [However, it should be noted that other than partisan claims, there is NO reliable evidence Obama was an affirmative action student, nor is there objective proof that his academic honors had anything to do with affirmative action.]
• Obama attended an elite private school in Honolulu as a scholarship student. Since all of the graduates from that school at that time took collegiate aptitude tests and he was not a National Merit Scholar, Semifinalist, or Outstanding Participant, his maximum possible score on the SAT was 1230, which is the 96.9 percentile. That would translate to a maximum possible IQ of 129. It should be noted, however, that one of the requirements for the National Merit Scholarship is taking the Preliminary SAT test. If Obama did not take the PSAT, he could very well have scored above 1230 on the SAT without being a National Merit Scholar.

Note: To many professionals in the 'IQ' field , this discussion is utterly absurd. We have no idea what Barack Obama's IQ is, but nobody with even a rudimentary understanding of what IQ means and how it is determined would suggest that any of the estimations methods (school grades and positions held at college) described in the answer have any validity whatsoever.

Answer 2

None of the Presidents of the United States have ever taken an IQ test (or at least made it public), so no one knows exactly what Obama's IQ is. Based on what some scholars have said, and on a few research projects conducted by certain universities, his IQ is estimated to be between 130 and 140, which is very smart compared to other presidents that have taken the position since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Answer 3

It's rather difficult to get accurate numbers for people just by observing them, but some people have attempted to make educated guesses and estimates.

One word of warning - there are plenty of hoax reports out there, for example, the "Lovenstein Institute" study that circulated on the internet some years ago was a hoax/political joke (see the article on the Snopes.com website for details).

Empire News reported that he scored 102 - roughly average for all people who can draw a breath. Considering the source that was probably a satirical article rather than a legitimate one (much like the hoax lovenstein report)

Obama managed to get into a prestigious law school with a rather good LSAT score - which suggests that he is not "average". accademictips.org has him listed at 130 - which is in the "gifted" range - and would be consistent with his accomplishments. The best evidence we have was analyzed by Steve Sailer who concluded that it probably falls in the range from 117 to 141. 117 is a bit smarter than average. 141 would make him very gifted but not a genius. If we split the difference we get an estimate of about 129 - which would still make him "gifted".

Answer 4

Not every president has taken an IQ test, and in fact, until the modern era, such a test did not exist. Since the results of such tests are confidential, there is no way to know where President Obama ever took one. What we do know is that he graduated from Harvard Law School in the top five percent of his class, and received academic honors, certainly an indication of high intelligence.

Answer 5

the I.Q. of president Barack Hussein Obama is 125

Answer 6

Nobody knows. Neither are his SAT or LSAT scores released. However, it is assumed that he is very intelligent. We estimate it between 116-165.

Answer 7

Presidents are not administered IQ tests. There is an urban legend out there, noted as false by snopes, a site which investigates such things.

Answer 8

160 i believe

Answer 9

130

Answer 10

205