{"id":46909,"date":"2017-10-11T09:55:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T09:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=46909"},"modified":"2017-10-11T09:55:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T09:55:45","slug":"mensa-offers-to-host-iq-test-for-trump-and-tillerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/politics\/mensa-offers-to-host-iq-test-for-trump-and-tillerson.html","title":{"rendered":"Mensa offers to host IQ test for Trump and Tillerson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mensa offers to host IQ test for Trump and Tillerson<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Bring on the IQ test \u2014 Mensa says it\u2019s willing to host President Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a battle of the brains.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an interview with Forbes published Tuesday, Trump suggested he and Tillerson \u2014 who allegedly once called the commander in chief a \u201cmoron\u201d \u2014 go head-to-head in an intelligence quotient showdown. The State Department has denied Tillerson ever made the comments.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it’s fake news,\u201d Trump told the magazine of Tillerson\u2019s \u201cmoron\u201d remark, \u201cbut if he did that, I guess we’ll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.”<\/span><\/p>\n

ITK reached out to the geniuses at Mensa \u2014 which describes itself as \u201can international society whose only qualification for membership is a score in the top 2 percent of the general population on a standardized intelligence test\u201d \u2014 and asked if they\u2019d be willing to take Trump\u2019s suggestion.<\/span>
\n\u201cAmerican Mensa would be happy to hold a testing session for President Trump and Secretary Tillerson,\u201d said Charles Brown, the group\u2019s communications director.<\/span><\/p>\n

When asked if any American president or Cabinet member has ever taken a Mensa admissions test before, Brown pointed out that while the group can confirm membership, it doesn\u2019t release who\u2019s actually taken the brain-busting exam.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s important to note that our admissions test is not the sole way to qualify for Mensa \u2014 there are hundreds of other prior-evidence tests that can qualify a member,\u201d Brown said. \u201cAnd the early success of many presidents no doubt exposed them to those types of qualifying avenues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Naming former President Clinton\u2019s experience as a Rhodes Scholar, Jimmy Carter\u2019s work as a nuclear engineer and George H.W. Bush\u2019s time as a military pilot, Brown told us, \u201cEach could have encountered standardized academic tests (LSAT, GMAT, Miller Analogies), where qualifying scores would have propelled them into Mensa.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/in-the-know\/354718-mensa-offers-to-host-iq-test-for-trump-and-tillerson<\/span><\/p>\n

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