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I find this article relavent to Obama. Ali and Obama are similar in many ways.
>Still, the low African IQ of 70 remains hard for many to accept. One reason for the disbelief: Africans—and African Americans—display high levels of social competence. They are outgoing, talkative, sociable, warm, and friendly. Psychometrically speaking, they score high on the Extraversion personality dimension. They are also much less anxious, shy, and fearful than Whites—they are low in the Neuroticism dimension. This combination of high Extraversion and low Neuroticism results in a socially dominant personality profile.
>It is this "winning personality" among Blacks, I believe, that makes it hard for so many to accept the validity of their failing tests of abstract reasoning ability.
>A typical academic story comes from professors who, on first exposure to African students, express their delight in the high levels of classroom performance. The students are described as engaged, offering lively opinions, and giving a clear impression of brightness. Only when the students took objectively measured essay or multiple-choice examinations did it become painfully obvious to even the most well-wishing faculty members that their grasp of abstract material failed to live up to their classroom rhetoric.
>Millions around the world delighted in the badinage between Muhammad Ali, perhaps the greatest boxer of all time, who failed the IQ test [scored 78] for his military induction physical, and TV sports announcer Howard Cosell.
>"I’m gonna whoop him Howard. You just watch!" Cosell responded, "You’re feeling very truculent today, Muhammad." Without batting an eye (or opening a dictionary) Ali uttered one of his trademark retorts, "Truculent? If that’s good, I’m it!"
>Asked on the CBS news program Face the Nation, "Muhammad, you say you’d never throw a fight, but what about that IQ test?" Ali shot back, "I told you I was the greatest, not the smartest!"
