10 U.S. Code § 520 - Limitation on enlistment and induction of persons whose score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test is below a prescribed level
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(a)The number of persons originally enlisted or inducted to serve on active duty (other than active duty for training) in any armed force during any fiscal year whose score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test is at or above the tenth percentile and below the thirty-first percentile may not exceed 20 percent of the total number of persons originally enlisted or inducted to serve on active duty (other than active duty for training) in such armed force during such fiscal year.

(b)A person who is not a high school graduate may not be accepted for enlistment in the armed forces unless the score of that person on the Armed Forces Qualification Test is at or above the thirty-first percentile; however, a person may not be denied enlistment in the armed forces solely because of his not having a high school diploma if his enlistment is needed to meet established strength requirements.

An AFQT score is derived from the ASVAB(essentially the militaries’ IQ test). IQ scores are based on a normal distribution of scores from the general population with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. So the 30th percentile represents an IQ score of 92 while the 10th percentile would correlate with an IQ of 81.

  • scytale@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    1 year ago

    Meanwhile, the police have a maximum IQ limit and anyone above that is not qualified.

    • ch1cken@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Can’t people just get some questions wrong on purpose to lower the resulting IQ score? You’d think that if they have a high enough IQ they would’ve thought of this.

      This comes of as really suspicious though, I’d suspect the PD’s which actually have this rule want dogs as workers who’d carry out any order (even if its wrong) without questioning it, like someone with higher IQ might.

      And trusting those guys with a weapon? Messed up.

    • RedderthanmistyEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Unfortunately, that limit is so low that even Forrest Gump would be overqualified.

    • contextual_somebody@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

      Not really. Some police forces have rejected candidates bc of high scores on entrance tests, but there’s no universal policy.

        • contextual_somebody@lemmy.worldEnglish
          52·
          1 year ago

          Some police forces, not “the police”. This phrasing makes it sound like it’s a universal policy. It isn’t and it’s rare, but it has happened.