Estimating the IQ of Obama
Steve Sailer has been nice enough to do the heavy lifting for me, and has determined the following information about him:
went to a school with an average IQ of 125
probably scored roughly in the 96th percentile on the LSAT
Using the same method I used for Bronski to estimate the percentiles of IQ within college graduates, an individual in the 96th percentile has an LSAT of roughly 2.1 in z-scores.
Assuming correlation between LSAT and IQ of 0.84 in the whole population and regressing that average from his school as a mean, Obama probably has an IQ of roughly 130.
Both of the other estimates made using LSAT/GRE scores have a standard error of 9.4, so that’s what i will use for obama.