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This Thread has ADD as it is all over the place, as it can not stick to one subject.

1. Ther are at least two dimensions to IQ

A. How quickly one can grasp and be able to abstract information. The US military has an IQ test that has been proven to be adequate over the decades as it has tested how many 100's of millions of Americans? Math and figuring out how the little blocks fit together does not seem to be prone to a "cultural bias."

B. The 2ND dimension of IQ is an EMOTIONAL IQ, in other words how well does one do in REAL TIME complex situations. How successful is one at negioating the schoals of a life adventure.

Here Lincoln was considered by his cousin John Hanks to be a rather dull lad who was "somewhat dull and not a brilliant boy but worked his way by toil " However his stepmother Sarah Bush Lincoln saw it differently, " He must understand everything..even to the smallest thing...minutely and exactly." This is from LINCOLN by David Donald pg 29.

This indicates that Lincoln knew process and mechanism and was able to construct and deconstruct situations and events at will. Further much of Lincolns life was filled with loss (death of loved ones and friends), disapointment and defeat. With each of these events (that so called "nervous breakdown" aka grief in 1836 after the death of his "sweet heart." Again on the backing out on the eve of his marriage to Mary Todd) Lincoln was able to think and emotionally feel things to a resolution in which he came to understand himself and human nature. This is the foundation of why Lincoln is considered to be the GREATEST of American presidents according to multiple polls over the decades of historians, and in ones opinion is in the pantheon of greatest leaders in human history.