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I definitely think, as a passing nod to our present prez, a "No President Left Behind" screening test, checking for possible learning differences as well.

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Let's leave aside questions of whether IQ tests are fair and whether the intelligence they measure is true intelligence. Is intelligence the ONLY characteristic that is important? When we label a politician "dumb", are we really talking about intelligence at all? Somebody with a 90 IQ cannot squeak through Harvard.

Assuming (for the moment) that IQ is important, is there a straight linear relationship between IQ and capability for this job, or is it a matter of a threshold? If one candidate's IQ is 140 and the other's 150, can we really say that those 10 IQ points give candidate #2 "more" of something that is better in quantity?

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