scrafty comments on How big of an impact would cleaner political debates have on society? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: scrafty 07 February 2014 01:24:49AM 0 points [-]

I doubt an IQ test would be useful at all. One has to be quite intelligent to be a real candidate for presidency.

Comment author: James_Miller 07 February 2014 04:34:22AM 0 points [-]

But it could make a big difference if a president is only two as opposed to, say, three standard deviations above the mean.