IQ test was too high???
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/09/08/toosmart.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/09/08/toosmart.ap/index.html
attn LEOs, have you heard this?
- Thread starter Jack M
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And yet we depend on these people to make on the spot decisions in life threatening situations. The dumbing down of America is alive and well.
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Sam I am, grn egs n packin
Nikita Khrushchev predicted confidently in a speech in Bucharest, Rumania on June 19, 1962 that: " The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag...the American people will hoist it themselves."
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Sam I am, grn egs n packin
Nikita Khrushchev predicted confidently in a speech in Bucharest, Rumania on June 19, 1962 that: " The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag...the American people will hoist it themselves."
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.[/quote]
Ok, I'm not a cop, but I know a few. And I've never heard boredom mentioned as one of the many complaints I've heard uttered. In fact, like in the military, "boring" is generally synonymous with a good watch/shift. By this reasoning, perhaps they should start interviewing people who scored 15-20 (or even less) - they'd be so busy all the time trying to find their butts with both hands and a flashlight they'd never get bored.
Guess I'm just too smart to figure it all out...
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"...and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."
Luke 22:36
"An armed society is a polite society."
Robert Heinlein
"Power corrupts. Absolute power - is kinda cool!"
Fred Reed
Ok, I'm not a cop, but I know a few. And I've never heard boredom mentioned as one of the many complaints I've heard uttered. In fact, like in the military, "boring" is generally synonymous with a good watch/shift. By this reasoning, perhaps they should start interviewing people who scored 15-20 (or even less) - they'd be so busy all the time trying to find their butts with both hands and a flashlight they'd never get bored.
Guess I'm just too smart to figure it all out...------------------
"...and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."
Luke 22:36
"An armed society is a polite society."
Robert Heinlein
"Power corrupts. Absolute power - is kinda cool!"
Fred Reed
Police work has always been described as seven-and-a-half hours of boredom and thirty seconds of terror, but, somehow, those of us with higher than average IQs/education find a way to muddle through.
LawDog
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LawDog
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