On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 06:06:31 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"John B." wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:35:15 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"F. George McDuffee" wrote in
message ...

==Remember 50% of the population is below average in
intelligence [and almost all other factors]==. I am still
looking for a study showing the median/average and 1st
decile [cutoff] IQ distribution for these "high-tech" and
other positions, so I can compare to the known adult
population IQ distribution. There are of course categories
within the aggregate IQ score which may be more significant
than aggregate IQ such as spatial
discrimination/visualization.
http://tinyurl.com/n3ut8qn

This is old problem for the military. I went through an electronic
school with a very high failure rate. AFAIK they used it to sort
recruits by skill level and sent the dropouts to appropriate other
classes.

http://www.navy.com/careers/engineer...chnology.html#

When I enlisted in the Air Force there was almost a week of tests
during Basic. It was obvious that the "dull thuds" were assigned to
either Cooks & Bakers or Supply as their first assignment.

However, years later I was assigned temporally to a detachment that
wrote the skill tests for my specialty. The wording of both the test
questions and answers were aimed at an 8th grade level of reading
comprehension. Which was, we were told, the standard for all USAF
technical manuals.
--
cheers,

John B.

An ex-AF co-worker told me he had discovered that walking around with
a clipboard and occasionally pretending to write down observations
made everyone else nervous enough that they left him completely alone
for most of his tour.

-jsw


Yup, that worked in places like Edwards AFB - the big test center -
where a very large percent of the work force was civilian. Not so well
at a SAC base where the only civilians worked in the mess hall. But
you did need some rank to pull it off. A Master-Sergeant with a clip
board was someone to worry about. A one striper would just be a joke.
--
cheers,

John B.