Tuesday, June 7, 2005
Kerry vs Bush redux
Yesterday's release of Kerry's undergraduate grades from Yale shows his grades to have been nearly identical to Bush's (read about it here), both overall averages (77 Bush, 76 Kerry) and individual courses grades (Bush's ranged from 69 to 88, Kerry's from 61 to 89). Kerry received five D's, Bush received one. (The Kerry literature talks about how his senior year oratory showed how well he pulled out of his freshman slump. Maybe it's related to that odd prodigal son conclusion that if you start off worse then becoming average is more impressive than if you start off average and become glorious. A dubious morale, I've always thought.) Anyway, I draw one or all of the following conclusions: (1) we were bound to have an intellectual weakling as president OR (2) college grades predict neither intelligence nor ability OR (3) the two men are equally brilliant/stupid OR (4) this is all utterly irrelevant.
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