Worth pointing out that an IQ of 80 would disqualify you from joining the army. There are people in the army who's job is it to clean toilets, and if you have an IQ of 80 you aren't smart enough to do that.
While they're no longer using a direct IQ test, their current requirements translate to an IQ or roughly 92.
In the army, everybody cleans toilets at some point. It's not a career billet.
The US military is a forced-pace meritocracy with decreasing retention quotas, and there are critical competencies for each step - all the way from throne-polisher to flag rank.
We need to remember that humans are a product of nature, and IQ plots on a curve, with natural outliers at each end. This is the human condition.
Progressive-'science'-ideologues would argue that IQ is racist, and we only need to raise these numerical scores to establish true equality.
Sounds like the minimum wage arguments, doesn't it?
Worth pointing out that an IQ of 80 would disqualify you from joining the army. There are people in the army who's job is it to clean toilets, and if you have an IQ of 80 you aren't smart enough to do that.
While they're no longer using a direct IQ test, their current requirements translate to an IQ or roughly 92.
In the army, everybody cleans toilets at some point. It's not a career billet.
The US military is a forced-pace meritocracy with decreasing retention quotas, and there are critical competencies for each step - all the way from throne-polisher to flag rank.
We need to remember that humans are a product of nature, and IQ plots on a curve, with natural outliers at each end. This is the human condition.
Progressive-'science'-ideologues would argue that IQ is racist, and we only need to raise these numerical scores to establish true equality.
Sounds like the minimum wage arguments, doesn't it?