I have a pretty busy schedule (yes HBD bloggers do have lives) and I like to invest almost all my blogging time into actually writing the posts. So I can't spend too much time scanning the various news sites looking for interesting and relevant stories. I also like to find videos like the the one below (via Guy White).
Anyone have any recommendations for a good collection of stories that would interest readers of this blog and that is quick/easy to scan through? For reference, I go to Science Daily for science-themed news.
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This probably doesn't fit your requirements but I'd be interested in something on police officer IQ. I googled the phrase and all I found was an old news article regarding a recent court ruling allowing New London Police Dept to discriminate against anyone with an IQ over 120. This might already have been thoroughly covered elsewhere, but I haven't seen it.
I ran it through the GSS and I found 49 police officers. Their average WORDSUM score was 6.2. Not sure about conversion to standard scale. But you can probably find it or compare it to other professions (Inducitivst, AE, and HalfSigma probably have data on other professions).
Use Google Reader to set up an hbd folder with feeds from every site you care about.
Then use the keyboard shortcuts to read everything in about 2-3 minutes.
OneSTDV,
Are you aware of any HBD blogs on the topic of deliberately lowering police IQ? Setting such a low ceiling (the person rejected in the suit had an IQ of 125)? The stated reason was that Police work is boring and they didn't want to train smart cops and then have them quit. This strikes me as a way to cope with disparate impact. If you cull off the top performers you can avoid some lawsuits by NAMs.
But what a disaster this is. Evidently the applicant in question later took a job as a prison guard, which I think proves he really wanted to work in the field. Moreover, given the decisions police need to make every day (shoot/don't shoot, chase/don't chase, solving mysteries, etc) IQ is clearly important for their job. Not to mention where the pool of detectives, captains, etc come from since they tend to promote from within.
Also, my college roommate wanted to join the FBI, and from what I recall of the point system the whole thing sorted for IQ. So many points for being in the military (especially an officer), so many points for a masters in Accounting, etc. So a white or Asian FBI agent probably has a fairly high IQ. I think this proves that IQ isn't a negative when doing police work...
Here are the links to the stories I found for reference:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_56314.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/09/nyregion/metro-news-briefs-connecticut-judge-rules-that-police-can-bar-high-iq-scores.html
" a recent court ruling allowing New London Police Dept to discriminate against anyone with an IQ over 120"
Idiocracy enforced by bureaucratic edit.
The world is more surreal by the day.
What was the excuse for PDs discriminating against IQs over 120?
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This site is a bitch to post at.
Should be post at bottom.
Never mind. You answered.
Homo sovieticus. And it will get worse.
It is parliamentary democracy its self --_and anything that feeds it_ (eg capitlism)-- which is at that root of this _inevitable_ snowballing.
Dear OneSTDV !
I personally would prefer that this blog does not devote itslf to politics and US Government, unless it is _directly_ related to HBD. There are so many regular political sites and Journals, but such a small number of HBD stuffed sites !
It does not mean that I do not share your political point of view -- probably I do share it, but still !
Your truly, Florida resident
Of THIS blog...hmmm. I don't know of any major news sites that are closely related...but I have a decent recommendation.
http://www.technologyreview.com/
artofproblemsolving.com--kinda HBD related. Look at all the top performers. Asian, or white people with jewish last names(well, a percentage far above the general population)
Plus, some very interesting puzzles
My friend's brilliant mother took an IQ test when she wanted to go into the police force. They didn't let her in because she scored too high (I think the cutoff was 130). If I recall correctly, the reasoning was that people with high IQs wouldn't stick around and stay police officers.
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