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by barry-cotter
5327 days ago
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I suspect that the mean intelligence is a tiny fraction south of that of the general population (because of the incentive structure). The US military is not legally allowed to take people with IQs below 80. They have dropped or relaxed requirements about tattoos, criminal records, drugs and other stuff rather than drop the minimum score required on the AFQT. http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997whygmatter... Lest IQ 80 seem an unreasonably high (i.e., exclusionary) threshold in hiring,
it should be noted that the military is prohibited by law (except under a declaration
of war) from enlisting recruits below that level (the 10th percentile). That law was
enacted because of the extraordinarily high training costs and high rates of failure
among such men during the mobilization of forces in World War II (Laurence &
Ramsberger, 1991; Sticht et al., 1987; U.S. Department of the Army, 1965).
Minimum enlistment standards since World War II have generally been higher
than the 10th percentile, and closer to what they are today for the different ser-
vices: the 16th AFQT percentile (Army, about IQ 85), 21st (Marine Corps and Air
Force, IQ 88), and 27th (Navy, IQ 91). |
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