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Probably high EQ, superb communication skills, and indicators for independent thinking would be better.

helij 6y ago
I suspect one of the things that people with high IQ are bad at is listening to orders and issues with authority. Their theory that people with high IQ will get bored is plausable until you think of them progressing to detective. This is a very strange thing. Never imagined there would be a job where you get rejected for having high IQ.
- bzb3 6y ago
  Your theory that people with high IQ are likely to disobey orders doesn't seem to be based on anything other than personal hope.
gonzo41 6y ago
Independent thinking doesn't gel well with hierarchical, procedure based organizations. If anything being a Cop these days seems more like herding cattle through a slaughterhouse. They just get people who will to turn the crank of the mincer.
- joejerryronnie 6y ago
  Agreed, I was listing what I think being a good cop should entail, but being successful in the current system probably rewards group think much more than independent thought.
barry-cotter 6y ago
EQ is bullshit. > Some historical and scientific issues related to research on emotional intelligence > In the past decade, the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) has emerged as a potential new construct for explaining behavioral variance not accounted for by traditional measures of general academic intelligence or personality. EI researchers credit E. L. Thorndike as the first to propose such a construct when he suggested that social intelligence is independent of abstract or academic intelligence. The current paper traces the historical roots of social intelligence and the current scientific status of emotional intelligence. It appears that emotional intelligence, as a concept related to occupational success, exists outside the typical scientific domain. Much of the data necessary for demonstrating the unique association between EI and work‐related behavior appears to reside in proprietary databases, preventing rigorous tests of the measurement devices or of their unique predictive value. For those reasons, any claims for the value of EI in the work setting cannot be made under the scientific mantle. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/job.317 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/job.317
- dehrmann 6y ago
  >> Much of the data necessary for demonstrating the unique association between EI and work‐related behavior appears to reside in proprietary databases Most of your claim rests on that. That's not saying it's BS, it's saying it's understudied.
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I suspect one of the things that people with high IQ are bad at is listening to orders and issues with authority. Their theory that people with high IQ will get bored is plausable until you think of them progressing to detective. This is a very strange thing. Never imagined there would be a job where you get rejected for having high IQ.

bzb3 6y ago
Your theory that people with high IQ are likely to disobey orders doesn't seem to be based on anything other than personal hope.

gonzo41 6y ago

Independent thinking doesn't gel well with hierarchical, procedure based organizations. If anything being a Cop these days seems more like herding cattle through a slaughterhouse. They just get people who will to turn the crank of the mincer.

joejerryronnie 6y ago
Agreed, I was listing what I think being a good cop should entail, but being successful in the current system probably rewards group think much more than independent thought.

barry-cotter 6y ago

EQ is bullshit. > Some historical and scientific issues related to research on emotional intelligence > In the past decade, the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) has emerged as a potential new construct for explaining behavioral variance not accounted for by traditional measures of general academic intelligence or personality. EI researchers credit E. L. Thorndike as the first to propose such a construct when he suggested that social intelligence is independent of abstract or academic intelligence. The current paper traces the historical roots of social intelligence and the current scientific status of emotional intelligence. It appears that emotional intelligence, as a concept related to occupational success, exists outside the typical scientific domain. Much of the data necessary for demonstrating the unique association between EI and work‐related behavior appears to reside in proprietary databases, preventing rigorous tests of the measurement devices or of their unique predictive value. For those reasons, any claims for the value of EI in the work setting cannot be made under the scientific mantle. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/job.317 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/job.317

dehrmann 6y ago
>> Much of the data necessary for demonstrating the unique association between EI and work‐related behavior appears to reside in proprietary databases Most of your claim rests on that. That's not saying it's BS, it's saying it's understudied.

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