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Darrell M. West
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Darrell M. West writes Inside Politics, a personal blog at insidepolitics.org about politics. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters cite this Darrell M. West page for George W. Bush's SAT score and his pre-Yale and pre-Harvard record. It is used as a source in threads about intelligence and Ivy League admissions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /heard/heard32300.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-04-25
What Hacker News says?
"Unlike John F. Kennedy, who obtained an IQ score of 119, or Al Gore, who achieved scores of 133 and 134 on intelligence tests taken at the beginning of his high school freshman and senior years, no IQ data are available for George W. Bush. But we do know that the young Bush registered a score of 1206 on the SAT, the most widely used test of college aptitude. (The more cerebral Al Gore obtained 1355.)" http://en.wik…
Comment linking /heard/heard32300.html
on “George W. Bush is smarter than you”I have never met George W Bush so I can't say how smart he is. But you can look at his SAT scores ( http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html ) before Yale, and his resume before he went to Harvard Business School. Then ask: Could I have gotten in into Yale with that SAT? Could I have gotten into HBS with that resume?
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on “George W. Bush is smarter than you”Googeled it. Not very impressive http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html Yale University/Typical SAT scores 2019–20 Reading and Writing 720-770, Math 740-800 Of cause there could be an inflation. and "Bush had scored only 25 percent on a "pilot aptitude" test, the lowest acceptable grade. But his father was then a congressman from Houston, and the commanders of the Texas Guard clearly had an appreciation…
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on “Who cares about the Ivy League?”