Alright this one annoyed me enough to look it up. First of all Peterson’s claim is 83, not 85. Second, The military does not test IQ. It has a different test

Alright this one annoyed me enough to look it up. First of all Peterson’s claim is 83, not 85. Second, The military does not test IQ. It has a different test with a decent correlation. This test scores in percentiles however. And the bottom 10% are not allowed in. This is not the same thing as 10% of all people cannot get in, as those taking the military test are probably a lower IQ subset on average. Probably not by much. I would guess the military is current cutting off the bottom 8-10% of the population. I can’t find much in the way of hard stats but I still feel pretty strongly that a 10th percentile individual is more than well equipped to be a delivery driver of a warehouse worker or whatever.