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Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops
- Bud 15y agoABC routes you through their incredibly annoying pitch for their iPad app if you want to read this on an iPad, and even if you can figure out what to click to Just Let Me Read The Fucking Article, they then pop you into an iPad "optimized" version, leaving you with a link that you can't confidently share with anyone or post to social media. ABC, please, for the love of God, stop doing it wrong.
- mc32 15y agoThe PD in question also bars people who fall below a given test result threshold. They seem to seek a "sweetspot" where they're smart enough to be valuable additions to the force and not be easily outsmarted by a average people but not so smart they grow bored and quit thus costing the dept time and money.
- makuro 15y agoWhile I, too, found that part intriguing, the article mentions that the guy has been working as a prison guard since being rejected. Could be that he just wanted to make money by being a police officer and that department missed out on a great hire. Not to mention the fact that the nature of the work can definitely change as long as they're promoting from within.
- ypcx 15y agoThanks for the quick summary.
- gojomo 15y agoObligatory canonical SciFi on these matters: 'Examination Day', Henry Slesar http://www.thebostonbachelor.com/2008/examination-day-by-henry-seslar/ http://www.thebostonbachelor.com/2008/examination-day-by-hen... 'Harrison Bergeron', Kurt Vonnegut http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
- tzs 15y agoAlready submitted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3418080 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3418080 Can someone explain why that one did not make it onto the RSS feed, but this later one did?
- tzs 15y agoI could understand this if the job was something like assembly line worker, where there might be no potential upward job growth, but for cops can't they advance from street cop to detective? I'd think you'd want detectives to be as smart as possible.