Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Ab
Never heard that story before, link?
I saw a Jordan Peterson video in which he described how US army recruiters estimated 10% of recruits were below a threshold of useful intelligence. That is, that 10% were not intelligent enough to be trainable to do anything.
|
Leahey, T. (2000)
A History of Psychology. NJ: Prentice Hall.
The issue with these early tests by the army was their baseline was a small sample from a specific region of the US, compared with the large sample of diverse army recruits. And that they were testing to suit the purposes of the army. So if the army wanted to train the top 5% of recruits as officers and drop the bottom 10% completely, then the tests would be designed as such.