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Jessica Cutler CLAIMS her IQ is 140
New Jessica Cutler article in the Washington Post
It was previously reported in this blog that April Witt of the Washington Post was working on a story about Jessica Cutler. That story is now available online.
The Washington post article is the most detailed account of Jessica Cutler to date. It’s a must read for anyone still interested in this “scandal.”
Matt Doyle
The Washington Post article is the first print publication to write about the impropriety of Jessica Cutler’s sexual relationship with Matt Doyle, the person who hires interns for Joseph Lieberman. (But unlike my blog, the Washington Post withholds his name.) I previously wrote the following in my blog:
Isn’t there something wrong when the person in charge of hiring interns (Matt Doyle) then has sex with the interns he hired? Was there a quid pro quo? Should Joseph Lieberman, who claims to be an orthodox Jew (although he was excommunicated ), tolerate this kind of behavior on the part of his staff? Doesn’t this smell unkosher? Shouldn’t Matt Doyle be fired for his scandalous behavior?
April Witt had the following to say about the matter:
The Lieberman staffer in question declined to be interviewed for this story. After Jessica's blog surfaced, Lieberman asked his chief of staff to review the matter, according to Matt Gobush, the senator's director of communications. Gobush acknowledges that the Lieberman staffer was listed as the contact on the internship posting Jessica responded to and that he had sat in on her interview. But ultimately that staffer did not make the decision to hire her, Gobush says. Although Gobush says the matter is still under review, any alleged sexual contact between a staffer and a former intern would not violate the office policy prohibiting sexual harassment.
I guess that Lieberman was paying attention to this scandal. He personally asked his chief of staff to review the matter. But in the end, Matt Doyle is still apparently working there.
Jessica Cutler does drugs
It was previously reported in this blog that Jessica Cutler uses illegal drugs. I had the following to say about this matter:
I think this is its own mini-scandal right there. Staffers who work for Senators who pass laws and appropriate money to fight the "war on drugs," do drugs themselves in blatant disregard of the law.
I know of someone who was fired from a contracting position at an irrelevant government office in outside the beltway Virginia because he stupidly confessed in his background investigation forms that he smoked a joint while he was in high school. Meanwhile, the staff who work on Capitol Hill do coke after work. How is that right?
The Washington Post article adds some further insight into Jessica Cutler’s drug use:
Jessica didn't hide from any of [her sex partners] that she drank heavily and used drugs such as ecstasy, she says. She's tried virtually every party drug, she says, and was amazed by how many men in Washington hadn't. "They will tell you, 'I have never done drugs' " she marvels. "Are you kidding me? . . . I would hope they are lying. How could you not even try it? . . . I think that's just part of being open-minded."
I think that everyone on Capitol Hill who uses illegal drugs should be outed and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law just like regular people who get caught with drugs. I say this not because I am anti-drug (actually I favor legalizing them), but because I’m anti-hypocrite. The people who make the laws are the first ones who should be prosecuted for violating their own laws.
What is Jessica Cutler’s IQ?
According to the Washington Post article, “she says she's been twice tested at more than 140.”
Just because Jessica Cutler says something doesn’t mean it’s true. She previously told news reporters that she was 24 when she’s really 26, and that she graduated from Syracuse University even though she didn’t. In fact, if Jessica Cutler’s lips are moving, there’s probably a good chance she’s lying about something.
So I find this 140 IQ story to be highly suspicious. Exactly what test did she take and when did she take it? I would like to know her SAT score. According to one guy’s SAT to IQ conversion chart on the internet, an IQ of 140 correlates to an SAT score of 1430. Prior to the SAT being renormed in 1994, Mensa considered an SAT score of 1250 to be equivalent to the 130 IQ needed for admission. After 1994, you need to add 70 points to get an equivalent score, so an SAT score today of 1320 is equivalent to an IQ of 130. I would say that if Jessica Cutler scored anything less than 1400 on the SAT then her story is a big lie.
If Jessica Cutler scored so high on her SAT, what was she doing in a bogus school like Syracuse University? And if she was so smart, why did she flunk out and not even graduate? This 140 IQ claim seems pretty bogus to me.
If anyone reading this has any info about Jessica Cutler’s SAT score or her grades in college, then please contact me (my email address is on the sidebar of the blog’s homepage).
posted Saturday, August 14, 2004
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18 Comments:
By Ardita:
dude, giving that much thought to someone's claimed IQ score and how it may or may not correlate with their SAT score says you really need to get out of the house more. Why on earth do you care so much?
posted at 8/15/2004 3:26 AM
By hooso:
I've been tested three times - 144, 148 and 146. I can't tell you *who* tested me, I just know what it said in my school record.
Someone from Syracuse went to Syracuse? What a surprise! Why do you think that one's choice of college is *solely* a matter of IQ, and has nothing to do with finances, convenience, the choices of friends, the geography and climate, the availability of financial aid, where your parents went to college, etc?
I suspect Syracuse is accredited by the North Central Association. So much for "bogus".
And most students don't flunk out because they are too stupid to get through. It doesn't take brains to get a degree, it takes persistance. Someone who majors in partying is pretty likely to flunk out *anywhere*, and I think we can all detect a certain level of slatternly party-girl behavior here.
People with high IQs are no richer or poorer than anyone else, they don't have more or fewer kids, they aren't more or less successful, they don't have different jobs than anyone else. The *only* characteristic that's ever been related to IQ is that people of higher IQ admit to greater variety in sexual practices. Whether they *engage* in a greater variety, nobody knows, but they *admit* to a greater variety.
So based on that, maybe she DOES have an IQ of 140.
She's awfully thin, though. If I was going to pay for sex, I surely would find someone who doesn't have the physique of an 11-year-old boy.
Of course, maybe that's the idea. Nobody can seem to figure out who "F" is. Maybe it's Barney Frank.
posted at 8/15/2004 3:11 PM
By Calico Cat:
Hooso says some "politically correct" stuff about IQ not meaning anything, but those kind of statements have always been wishful thinking on the part of liberals. And of course liberals are hypocrites on the subject of IQ because they are eager to point out how low George W Bush's IQ is... I thought it didn't mean anything?
Syracuse U is ranked 55 as USNWR, which puts it above "bogus" so I apologize to Syracuse alums, but nevertheless, someone with an IQ of 140+ and an SAT score of 1430+ shouldn't have any problems graduating from Syracuse, even being lazy and not putting in much effort.
I've gradauated from college, law school, and business school, so I know that it doesn't require any sort of "persistence", you just have to put in your time. If Jessica didn't graduate after putting in so much time there, it's because she's a total screwup.
It takes more persistence to write a book than to graduate from college. I have no idea how she will write a book if she didn't have the persistence to graduate from college. Unless she is going to have a ghost writer. Which means it's not really her book at all, she's just endorsing it because she's famous, and she got famous because she slept around with a lot of men and then wrote about it in a blog. Not much of a claim to fame.
posted at 8/16/2004 6:33 PM
By koalawoman:
Speaking of SATs, Matt Doyle taught GRE and LSAT classes through Kaplan to pick up some extra cash since he wasn't making it with Lieberman. I don't know how he had time for Jessica, supposedly he taught 4 nights a week. I believe he had started with Lieberman about 4 years ago, he is from West Hartford, CT, went to Duke University, and lived in the Rosslyn area. Maybe he should have stuck to the interns, he wasn't a very good Kaplan instructor! ~ a former student and thankfully not an intern
posted at 8/16/2004 8:12 PM
By Coffee:
It isn't unheard of for someone with high SAT scores to go to a school like Syracuse, particularly if one lives nearby. One reason might be that an academically accomplished student receives significant scholarship money as an incentive to attend. The other reason might be that despite high SAT scores, the student is lazy as all hell and had mediocre grades. Since that laziness usually also comes along with disinterest in applying to a lot of colleges, it could happen. Cutler's personality probably puts her in the "lazy" category rather than the "scholarship" category.
posted at 8/16/2004 10:31 PM
By mikeca:
I went the University of Michigan, and the smartest student I ever met there flunked out. He could never remember to go to class or do homework. One class I took with him, he flunked the midterm, because he had never been to class and didn't study for it. The day before the final, he came over and spent an hour looking at my class notes. He got 100% on the final. The next year he ran into some professors that expected the homework to be done on time, and they flunked him out.
Jessica Cutler could be reasonably smart but lazy and scatterbrained.
One thing the Washington Post article does say is that she has a long resume of low-level jobs, and she was fired from most of them. Apparently the people that kept hiring her never checked with any of the previous employers listed on her resume.
posted at 8/17/2004 2:18 AM
By Calico Cat:
I guess if Jessica puts as much effort into her book as she put into her former jobs and her college, her publisher is going to want its money back.
posted at 8/17/2004 6:33 PM
By zmgurl:
hey all just wondering who is jessica cutler???... why is she so important i mean ive never heard of her? also i feel stupid ive been living in florida for almost a year now and i dont know the capital of this state what is it? is it jacksonville????????????????? or orlando??? or is it denver??? my mom says las vegas is the sin city and that is where the teletubies originated from.... is that true? also check out my posts im getting lonely over there!!!!! now really answer the question about the teletubies.
posted at 8/21/2004 10:35 PM
By blogdisher04:
Dude if you want info on her grades i can so give them to ya, She totally got "speacial credit" through college. My uncle is a proffesor where she attended and he had some very good things to say abo;ut her but they werent about her iq. all the teachers agreed that as locked as she could lick suck and swallow she could get through her hard years ahead!
posted at 8/21/2004 10:42 PM
By zmgurl:
blogdisher you dont need to say dirty things like that cuz my mommy says that stuff that you just wrote is just a bus ride straight to hell. ooppss... you made me say the h e double hockey stick word shame on you!!!that stuff is naughty to say!!! you are a bad influence on all these people!!!
posted at 8/21/2004 10:50 PM
By Mitch:
It's silly to get into a pissing contest over IQ's. I just listened to her radio interview on Air America and she sounded like a dizzy teenager whose idea of responsibility is having the guy pull out before he 'finishes'. Point being this is much ado about nothing.
posted at 7/05/2005 3:06 PM
By John:
Man, CC, you are the dumbest person I ever heard of, I don't care WHAT your IQ is.
posted at 1/04/2006 2:04 PM
By John:
Man, CC, you are the dumbest of the dumb, I don't care WHAT your IQ is.
posted at 1/04/2006 2:05 PM
By John:
Man, CC, you are the dumbest person I ever heard of, I don't care WHAT your IQ is.
posted at 1/04/2006 2:06 PM
By John:
I'll say it once more for good measure: dumb, CC, dumb.
posted at 1/04/2006 2:07 PM
By John:
I don't understand why there are only 3 posts where I call you dumb. I submitted more than that. I typed words & clicked the "publish" button more than that! I must protest the internet's unreliability: I need to call you dumb many times (more than 3), & I need the internet to properly record it.
P.S. You are dumb. I am a fun guy to go to parties with. Check out my profile, see if there's anything you like
posted at 1/05/2006 2:27 PM
By Phil:
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posted at 3/18/2006 8:43 PM
By Phil:
I follow your other comments, but you lost me on the Syracuse swat. Syracuse is a fine school, and, like Harvard (or Cuyahoga Community College, for that matter), I am sure well-populated with 140+ IQs. Please, world, resist the urge to think of the college admissions process as some sort of global triage by which people are sorted according to IQ and likelihood of future achievement into uniform tiers, the best and brightest heading only to the Ivies and so forth; intelligence and achievement are more dynamic and future success is unpredictable.
posted at 3/18/2006 8:43 PM
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