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From the article: "New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with pol
by codezero 13y ago
From the article:
"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."
This doesn't seem crazy, but I'd like to see if they actually have data showing a higher turn-over rate for high IQ people they accepted in the past.
The cost of training is high, so filters seem appropriate, if they can filter out people with low scores (and by proxy IQ), then they can filter out people with high scores.
- phaus 13y agoDon't most detectives come from the ranks of ordinary cops? Don't we want our detectives to be extremely intelligent? I'm friends with quite a few police offers and detectives, and the fact that they are all extremely intelligent doesn't seem to affect their interest in the job at all.
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- codezero 13y agoI'm not a cop so I can't say what they find most useful in a detective, but my guess is that the internal filtering process will select for the most intelligent of the ones they have recruited, and that a lot of that intelligence is defined in terms that are specific to being a cop, and specific to what they learned while already being a cop, so it may not be an innate intelligence that is optimal for the kind of person you want to be a detective. Personally, I'm all for very intelligent cops, and at the very least, having lots of people on the spectrum of intelligence in various roles makes sense to me.