Re: Should Presidents Be able To Spot Three Move Forced Checkmates?
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good education (grad degree), and excellent life skills (people skills, ambition, organization, etc)
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Huge correlation between those and intelligence obviously.
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In addition they are usually extremely good at one specialized thing and terrible at practical matters.
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Meh. All "renaissance men" have always been geniuses.
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I won't even mention the giant list of geniuses who have gone insane and/or committed suicide.
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Yeah, obv. I'm not saying that IQ is the lone measure. There certainly are a ton of idiot savants, and eccentric geniuses out there that would obviously suck at being president.
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Things like diplomacy require tact, not uber-intelligence.
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Maybe I'm just naive, but I'm under the impression that Jefferson, Lincoln, JFK, Churchill, and Ghandi were all "uber-intelligent".
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