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400*20%, come on... We should have a higher bar than this...
by anonu 4y ago
400*20%, come on... We should have a higher bar than this...
- photon12 4y agoDo you want municipalities to be able to hire cops? This is already a tall order for a lot of people.
- ravel-bar-foo 4y agoNo? I want municipalities to hire competent and ethical cops (at market salaries), rather than giving firearms to train warm bodies and attempting to teach them to enforce the law.
- diordiderot 4y agoDo you want angry people with room temperature IQs armed and in charge?
- orthoxerox 4y agoOne benefit of global warming is that angry people with room temperature IQs are getting smarter.
- KingMob 4y agoNo. I want fewer police, and more mental health, parks, and educational services. And even if I did, the standard for getting a gun should be higher than this.
- staticassertion 4y agoNo I do not lol
- Spooky23 4y agoWe did. Civil Service exams are intended to assess merit and fitness for a job. This has been subject to litigation since the 90s by various parties who felt that minorities and others were underrepresented. In New York, the courts found in the 90s that many exams were partially IQ tests, which put the plaintiffs at a disadvantage. So they dumbed down civil service exams to be a combination of grammar, random factoids, and basic math.
- xkcd1963 4y agoIt's bunkels to use IQ tests for merit
- dymk 4y agoMakes sense for general intelligence though.
- mywittyname 4y agoIt's highly correlated with success in many facets of life, including professional success and educational attainment.
- Spooky23 4y agoThey weren’t IQ tests, but results tended to be correlated with IQ. When you are testing for reasoning, analysis, etc those are exercising the the same parts of the brain as an IQ test. When you make a test such that you can just memorize grammar rules and know facts, you’re assessing the willingness of the candidate to study, or have access to study materials. Depending on the job, it may not matter at all. Your IQ over a moderate threshold is irrelevant to many occupations.