There has been recent talk about the idea that ~120 IQ is ideal for a president, or an executive in the generality. I realized that there might be a way to take a stab at this topic as far as the US government is concerned: analyze the educational backgrounds of the 100 senators and 50 governors. The two groups do overlap (some governors become senators and some senators become governors), but while the former are legislators who often focus on certain specific public policy issues the latter are general executives.
I don’t have time to check this now, but will do so later if someone doesn’t beat me to it.
Posted by razib at 09:49 PM