Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Put not thy trust in IQ

General Anton Dostler
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"Not that it is likely to, but the results of the IQ tests performed by an American Army psychologist at the Nuremberg Trials should put at least a slight damper on the often-heard atheist appeals to intelligence. Especially since at 121.72, the average IQs of the National Socialist leadership was more than a standard deviation higher than the 103.09 mean IQ reported for atheists:

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IQ of Nazi leaders, cited from: Gilbert, G. M.: Nuremberg Diary. New York: Signet Book 1947, p. 34; Wechsler-Bellevue:

Hjalmar Schacht, Reich Minister of Economics: IQ 143

Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Foreign Minister of Germany: IQ 141

Hermann Göring, President of the Reichstag and Reich Minister of Aviation: IQ 138

Karl Dönitz, Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine: IQ 138

Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and War Production: IQ 128

Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht: IQ 127

Alfred Rosenberg, Commissar for Supervision of Intellectual and Ideological Education of the German National Socialist Workers Party: IQ 127

Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer: IQ 120
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In other words,

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