If you ask Americans whether or not they think their former president George W. Bush is smart, most of them will probably tell you they don't think so. However, Bush's IQ score is estimated to be above 120, which puts him in the top ten percent of the population. 

It doesn't seem to make sense. How come someone with such an IQ score is not considered smart? Researchers say: IQ does not tell the whole story. Some people have high IQ scores, but still they can be poor thinkers and decision-makers. 

Keith Stanovich, a Canadian professor of human development and applied psychology, has been looking into the "clever fools" phenomenon for 15 years. He says IQ tests are very good at measuring certain mental faculties , including logic, learning ability, working-memory capacity (how much information you can hold in mind), etc. Those faculties play a part in one's academic success, but rational thinking is more important for us to make good judgments in real-life situations. 

IQ tests fail to work when it comes to rational thinking. That's because they are unable to assess things such as a person's ability to weigh up information, or whether an individual can set aside the cognitive biases that may be misleading. 

"A high IQ is like height in a basketball player," says David Perkins, who studies thinking and reasoning skills at Harvard University. "It is very important, all other things being equal. But all other things aren't equal. It takes a lot more to be a good basketball player than being tall, and it takes a lot more to be a good thinker than having a high IQ." QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What unique phenomenon has someone been looking into for awhile?
2. What oddity has someone been studying for awhile?
3. What odd character trait has a person been researching for a number of years?
Q2:
1. Is there a nickname for people whose IQ is high but are not considered smart?
2. Is there a colloquial way of referring to those who score well on IQ tests but aren't considered intelligent?
3. Is there a name for people with high IQ's that seem dumb?
Q3:
1. Who researched clever fools?
2. Whose research focused on the clever fool phenomenon?
3. Who studied the phenomenon of clever fools?
Q4:
1. Is Keith Stanovich American?
2. Is Keith Stanovich from the United States?
3. Does Keith Stanovich come from the US?
Q5:
1. What is Keith Stanovich's nationality?
2. What is the nationality of Keith Stanovich?
3. Where does Keith Stanovich come from?
Q6:
1. How long has Keith Stanovich been researching clever fools?
2. For how long has Keith Stanovich been looking into the clever fool phenomenon?
3. How many years has Keith Stanovich spend studying clever fools?
Q7:
1. Do IQ tests reliably test rationale?
2. Is an IQ test a reliable way of testing rationale?
3. Are we able today to use IQ tests to accurately test people's rationale?
Q8:
1. What do IQ tests accurately evaluate?
2. What are IQ tests good at measuring?
3. What is accurately evaluated by an IQ test?
Q9:
1. Does anyone mention an analogy?
2. Is an analogy made in the article?
3. Does somebody bring up an analagous comparison?
Q10:
1. What analogy does David Perkins make?
2. What does David Perkins compare IQ to?
3. What does David Perkins say that IQ is similar to?
