(a)The number of persons originally enlisted or inducted to serve on active duty (other than active duty for training) in any armed force during any fiscal year whose score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test is at or above the tenth percentile and below the thirty-first percentile may not exceed 20 percent of the total number of persons originally enlisted or inducted to serve on active duty (other than active duty for training) in such armed force during such fiscal year.
(b)A person who is not a high school graduate may not be accepted for enlistment in the armed forces unless the score of that person on the Armed Forces Qualification Test is at or above the thirty-first percentile; however, a person may not be denied enlistment in the armed forces solely because of his not having a high school diploma if his enlistment is needed to meet established strength requirements.
An AFQT score is derived from the ASVAB(essentially the militaries’ IQ test). IQ scores are based on a normal distribution of scores from the general population with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. So the 30th percentile represents an IQ score of 92 while the 10th percentile would correlate with an IQ of 81.
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Shots fired!!!
And they killed a dog
I see you too are a person of taste and watch Veritasium 😛
Guilty as charged. I haven’t finished the video just yet though. It took me a while to track down a source for that info.
well, that’s better than Jordan Peterson, who likes to mention this topic
This is a myth. There IS a test, called the “Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)”, which is a competency test to see what jobs you would be suited for, but that is NOT an IQ test.
Sure, if you score badly on that test you will LIKELY have a low score on an IQ test, probably because something like 40% of American adults are illiterate or have low-literacy and that would impact your ability to do any test.
But the military does not IQ test.
McNamara’s morons have entered the chat
Meanwhile, the police have a maximum IQ limit and anyone above that is not qualified.
Unfortunately, that limit is so low that even Forrest Gump would be overqualified.
Not really. Some police forces have rejected candidates bc of high scores on entrance tests, but there’s no universal policy.
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This is inaccurate. The military doesn’t IQ test. ASVAB is designed to test your proficiency in different career fields.
Insert Marine Corps joke here
Crayon eaters.
All the IQ rejected admissions go to the policy academy, I presume?
I think a skills-based aptitude test that is honed towards specific occupations and a vague intelligence test that the creators even believe barely gives a tenuous grasp on mental ability is not a good comparison.
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note to self: during a draft, be special.
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They tried it in Vietnam and discovered the lower iq recruits were more trouble than they were worth and made the military run worse overall, so it’s probably unlikely to happen again
That’s smartist. No, not “smartest”, I said “smartist”. :B
If only we did the same thing with voters.
Kidding, that wouldn’t work. But… sigh.
They need to be smart enough to not be persuadable to shoot innocent civilians and their higher ups
