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"Jez" |
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03 May 2004 09:34:15 PM |
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OT:Police reject candidate for being too intelligent ! |
Police reject candidate for being too intelligent
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_56314.html
A US man has been rejected in his bid to become a police officer for scoring
too high on an intelligence test.
Robert Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took an exam to join the New
London police, in Connecticut, in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent
of an IQ of 125.
But 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.
Mr Jordan launched a federal lawsuit against the city, but lost.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court's
decision that the city did not discriminate against Mr Jordan because the
same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.
He said: "This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America
against people of a certain class. I maintain you have no more control over
your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything
else."
He said he does not plan to take any further legal action and has worked as
a prison guard since he took the test.
The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent
of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.
--
Jez
"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious,
of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society
highly values its normal man.It educates children to lose themselves
and to become absurd,and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed
perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."
R.D. Laing
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| User: "Topquark" |
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| Title: Re: OT:Police reject candidate for being too intelligent ! |
04 May 2004 07:33:43 AM |
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"Jez" <iced_spear@AwaySPAMdsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:4097010e$0$15745$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com...
Police reject candidate for being too intelligent
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_56314.html
A US man has been rejected in his bid to become a police officer for
scoring
too high on an intelligence test.
Robert Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took an exam to join the
New
London police, in Connecticut, in 1996 and scored 33 points, the
equivalent
of an IQ of 125.
But 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.
Mr Jordan launched a federal lawsuit against the city, but lost.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court's
decision that the city did not discriminate against Mr Jordan because the
same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.
He said: "This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America
against people of a certain class. I maintain you have no more control
over
your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything
else."
He said he does not plan to take any further legal action and has worked
as
a prison guard since he took the test.
The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the
equivalent
of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.
There was a similar case reported on the news a year or so ago. But it's
not cops' lack of general intelligence that worrisome; it's their lack of
moral intelligence.
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| User: "Yang, AthD \h.c" |
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| Title: Re: OT:Police reject candidate for being too intelligent ! |
03 May 2004 09:49:05 PM |
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"Jez" <iced_spear@AwaySPAMdsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:4097010e$0$15745$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com...
Police reject candidate for being too intelligent
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_56314.html
A US man has been rejected in his bid to become a police officer for
scoring
too high on an intelligence test.
Robert Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took an exam to join the
New
London police, in Connecticut, in 1996 and scored 33 points, the
equivalent
of an IQ of 125.
I had a class mate who was in naval pilot school. He failed the psych test
because, according to his commanding officers, he was too "rational" and
"safe".
So he took the test again and deliberately picked all the answer that
indicated recklessness (the example he gave was something along the line of
"d) take that curve on the moutain road in the middle of the night after two
cans of beer as hard as you can") and passed.
And then he decided not to do all that stuff and instead become a PhD
economist.
Yang
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| User: "Tink" |
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| Title: Re: OT:Police reject candidate for being too intelligent ! |
04 May 2004 04:17:19 PM |
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Jez wrote:
Police reject candidate for being too intelligent
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_56314.html
A US man has been rejected in his bid to become a police officer for scoring
too high on an intelligence test.
Robert Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took an exam to join the New
London police, in Connecticut, in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent
of an IQ of 125.
But 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.
Mr Jordan launched a federal lawsuit against the city, but lost.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court's
decision that the city did not discriminate against Mr Jordan because the
same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.
He said: "This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America
against people of a certain class. I maintain you have no more control over
your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything
else."
He said he does not plan to take any further legal action and has worked as
a prison guard since he took the test.
The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent
of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.
Have you seen the cops on the street lately? It's scary that they want
the stupid ones to carry guns.
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"There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher-
the clergyman." [Victor Hugo]
The World Famous Tink. (I never heard of you either!!)
AA #2069 ASA#33 POPS# 8808
EAC Chairman, Division of Skydiving and Sushi consumption.
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| User: "Jos Flachs" |
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| Title: Re: OT:Police reject candidate for being too intelligent ! |
04 May 2004 04:46:19 AM |
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On Tue, 4 May 2004 03:34:15 +0100, "Jez"
<iced_spear@AwaySPAMdsl.pipex.com> wrote:
A US man has been rejected in his bid to become a police officer for scoring
too high on an intelligence test.
I don't want to be boasting, but this is not unusual at all. At least,
it isn't in Europe. I got rejected several times for security jobs on
the grounds that my education was far too high.
Well, that is in the dim past for me now. :-)
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| User: "TCS" |
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| Title: Re: OT:Police reject candidate for being too intelligent ! |
03 May 2004 09:49:33 PM |
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that was 8 years ago!
On Tue, 4 May 2004 03:34:15 +0100, Jez <iced_spear@AwaySPAMdsl.pipex.com> wrote:
Police reject candidate for being too intelligent
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_56314.html
A US man has been rejected in his bid to become a police officer for scoring
too high on an intelligence test.
Robert Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took an exam to join the New
London police, in Connecticut, in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent
of an IQ of 125.
But 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.
Mr Jordan launched a federal lawsuit against the city, but lost.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court's
decision that the city did not discriminate against Mr Jordan because the
same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.
He said: "This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America
against people of a certain class. I maintain you have no more control over
your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything
else."
He said he does not plan to take any further legal action and has worked as
a prison guard since he took the test.
The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent
of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.
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