{"id":67197,"date":"2015-04-08T10:35:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=67197"},"modified":"2015-04-08T10:51:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:51:36","slug":"when-the-us-military-let-in-the-below-85-iq-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=67197","title":{"rendered":"When The US Military Let In The Below 85 IQ Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: The 1980 hostage rescue fiasco in Iran was during the 1976-1980 period when the military had accidentally (?) misnormed its AFQT score minimums and let in a lot of real dullards. Sen. Sam Nunn kept insisting to the Pentagon that old sergeants were writing to him about there had to be something wrong with the test because these new recruits they\u2019re letting join are just not right.<\/p>\n

The scoring was fixed in 1980 \u2014 that\u2019s why the AFQT was given to the nationally representative NLSY79 panel in 1980, creating the data at the heart of \u201cThe Bell Curve\u201d \u2014 and Reagan inherited an improving military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes: The 1980 hostage rescue fiasco in Iran was during the 1976-1980 period when the military had accidentally (?) misnormed its AFQT score minimums and let in a lot of real dullards. Sen. Sam Nunn kept insisting to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29582],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iq"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t