Cops r dum lol

[Hasbinbad]

no rly.

Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops



http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836&fb_source=message

[Hasbinbad]

Sworen what is it like to have a job with a maximum IQ limit?

[Daldolma]

funny part is 125 isn't even that high

[FoxxHound]

lolwat

[Tasslehofp99]

wow

[Bodeanicus]

funny part is 125 isn't even that high

Higher than 99% of the denizens of this sperglord convention.

[Tecmos Deception]

Wow what? The majority of the candidates were above average, their reason given wasn't entirely crazy, and this was in the UK. Have you seen their teeth?

[Tecmos Deception]

God. Looking at an IQ bell curve is depressing. 1 in 6-7 people has an IQ of 70-85. Tee hee.

[Alawen]

ITT: Multiple individuals, including OP, take a completely different stance on the correlation between IQ and intelligence.

[Daldolma]

Higher than 99% of the denizens of this sperglord convention.

true

as in the real world, i will look down on the 99% from on high and assume they are all like hbb

[abacab-godking2]

They are supposed to be dum. We must not let the smart go to waste at the hands of...the waste.

[Malice_Mizer]

this was in the UK.

New London, Connecticut.

[r00t]

nontraversy police work isnt rocketyscience

125 aint too bad a score (remember that spergie on the forums with some high-iq club avatar lol) but iq tests are generally just stupid trick questions so i dont trust em

[Kiwaukee]

So the ruling from the courts was that the city had a "rational basis", which was their assumption that higher IQ applicants may get bored and leave shortly after the city incurs all the training costs.

How is that ANY different than a fast food restaurant refusing to hire a black person because statistics show that they are disproportionally arrested and convicted for violent offenses, so they form a "rational basis" that blacks are more likely to act out violently at work? Ridiculous.

The one thing the court got right, and it was mentioned in the report, was that this guy wasn't discriminated against when compared to the rest of the applicant pool - they all had the same criteria. ALL OF THEM with high IQs were discriminated against.

There are lawsuits all over the country about civil service (police and fire, mostly) promotional processes being biased against blacks because they contain a test component that blacks have traditionally done poorly with. Everyone who applies is given the same test, and the material is subject matter relevant, yet blacks who sue are basically suing on the grounds that they are not smart enough (as an ethnic group) to pass the test, thus it's unfair. And they're WINNING some of the lawsuits.

It's just another clear indication that politicians and judiciary officials are not concerned with discrimination issues unless they have to deal with gender or minority races, and even then sometimes they're afraid to rule in against the suit for fear of being labeled a "racist" or "sexist" person.

[myriverse]

Please... employers have been using the "overqualified" thing for ages. Whatcha gonna do?

[Cecily]

So as long as the discrimination is consistently applied to everyone, it's not discrimination? No Irish need apply.

[abacab-godking2]

The Level Of Idiocy is strong within you posters.