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President Bush 2 lacks “integrative complexity”, it seems

Political Psychology magazine has intriguing evidence of how essential it is to be able engage with critical friends, The Sunday Times reports. It’s President Bush 2’s failure to do that which makes his behaviour appear so stupid, apparently. His IQ isn’t grossly deficient - he’s pretty much average. But

...he scores particularly unimpressively for “openness to experience, a cognitive proclivity that encompasses unusual receptiveness to fantasy, aesthetics, actions, ideas and values. In the general population this factor is positively associated with intelligence”.

Bush’s openness score of zero — compared with 82 for Clinton and John F Kennedy, 95 for Abraham Lincoln and 99.1 for Thomas Jefferson — “placed him at the very bottom of US presidents”.

This assessment can only be considered tentative because of lack of available evidence on a sitting president, but it is corroborated by a measure of Bush’s “integrative complexity”. Simonton says: “Low scorers on integrative complexity can only see things from a single perspective — their own.”

Bush’s score, he says, is comparable to “extremist Islamic fundamentalists in the Taliban and Al-Qaeda leadership

We seriously need Government’s CIOs who perform rather better on this important scale. Love your enemies, people.

Published by William Heath on 11/09/06 at 5:00pm

Comments

1. Strange that our cowed media feel safe to mock other countries’ politicians (or our monarchy) but seem so terrified about criticizing members of our own government.

   Reply by Richard S  on  09/11/06  at  7:07 pm

2. I would agree, but over the pond it appears to be in a completely different league to anything we get upset about.

   Reply by Doug  on  09/12/06  at  1:12 pm

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