Timeline for Does the US Armed Forces refuse to recruit anyone with an IQ less than 83?
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| Nov 2, 2022 at 12:41 | comment | added | bukwyrm | Ps claim of "There wasn't anything [such a person] could possibly be trained to do in the military, at any level of the organization, that wasn't positively counterproductive." is the point he is trying to make, the centerpiece of the whole argument - dismissing that is ludicrous. Consider: 'Water is wet (1), as seen in wine making the skin cooler by evaporation(2), because H2O is a cool element(3)' 1-ok, 2-meh, 3-wtf - rating that 1&2&3 -claim to be 'generally backed up by...' because 1 and 2 are mostly cogent is not a fair shake. | |
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| Sep 27, 2019 at 17:28 | comment | added | BobTheAverage | @CliffAB It sounds like you are trying to write an unreferenced answer in the comments. | |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 14:39 | comment | added | Cliff AB | If they had said "recruits with higher IQ tend to rise through the ranks faster", or "platoons with an average IQ of 100 consistently outperform platoons with an average IQ of 80", sure, that's probably a reasonable statement. But without a doubt, there are individuals with IQ < 83 that could be extremely useful to the military. | |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 14:25 | comment | added | Cliff AB | @sgf: In regards to (3), my point was the (3) is a statement on the individual level ("because their experience has shown that anyone with an IQ under 83 will be more of a liability than an asset to the military"), rather than the population level, hence why it's almost certainly wrong. | |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 8:36 | comment | added | sgf | @CliffAB No matter how bad a measure IQ is on the individual level, if all you're worried about is how the troops are going to perform, you only need IQ to be a reasonably useful statistical predictor. I always thought that it was. | |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 3:41 | comment | added | Cliff AB | I understand why you avoid (3), but it's worth noting that it's almost certain incorrect. Measuring intelligence in general is very difficult and plenty of people think IQ is not a good measure (especially in regards to intelligence required for warfare!). The use of IQ is almost certainly due to the ease it in which it can be measured. | |
| Sep 25, 2019 at 4:31 | comment | added | got trolled too much this week | Note that AFQT is the actual SAT-like part of ASVAB, so the part most likely correlated with IQ. See psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/20220/… | |
| Sep 25, 2019 at 2:20 | history | answered | BobTheAverage | CC BY-SA 4.0 |