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We would need better informed and more intelligent voters for this to have much of an impact, and even then I doubt it would matter because high IQ, well informed voters already have a very good idea of what candidates will do when elected.
I would much rather have candidates take IQ and general knowledge tests than participate in honest debates. And in the near future what I would like to see is a DNA analysis of Presidential candidates to identify those with genes predisposing them to being sociopaths.
I doubt an IQ test would be useful at all. One has to be quite intelligent to be a real candidate for presidency.
But it could make a big difference if a president is only two as opposed to, say, three standard deviations above the mean.