Mental Category V (the lowest 10% of the population), 9%.
Wow America only has 9% of the population in the bottom 10% Thats superb natural inteligence. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Corellating PS ed and military recruitment criteria since the Vietnam grinder
Table 2. Estimated Percentage of Draftees by Mental Group, by Race: FY 1966 Mental Group Whites Blacks Total I 7.6 0.3 6.7 II 32.1 3.3 28.8 III 34.6 18.2 32.8 IV 16.0 38.2 18.5 V 9.1 37.1 12.3 Source: R. de Neufville & C. Comer (1968). How good are our schools? Armed Forces Qualification Test Provides a Clue. American Education, p. 7.
Mental Group Whites Blacks Total I 7.6 0.3 6.7 II 32.1 3.3 28.8 III 34.6 18.2 32.8 IV 16.0 38.2 18.5 V 9.1 37.1 12.3
Source: R. de Neufville & C. Comer (1968). How good are our schools? Armed Forces Qualification Test Provides a Clue. American Education, p. 7.
"The All-Volunteer Military: Issues and Performance," AFQT, CBO, 2007
Table 1. Scoring Categories for the Armed Forces Qualification Test AFQT Score (Percentile)a Category I 93-99 Category II 65-92 Category IIIA 50-64 Category IIIB 31-49 Category IV 10-30 Category V 1-9 Source: Congressional Budget Office. a. Individual scores on the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) are measured in terms of the distribution of scores of a nationally representative sample of young people. For example, someone whose test results fall in the 72nd percentile of that distribution receives an AFQT score of 72 (and is in category II). Data from 1960 through the first half of 1973 indicate that new service members' AFQT scores were generally lower during the draft era than they have been under the all-volunteer force.(53) During the 1960-1973 period, 37 percent of male recruits scored in the top two categories, compared with 43 percent of male and female recruits in 2006 (see Figure 4).(54) In addition, 19 percent of draft-era recruits were in category IV, versus less than 2 percent last year.
AFQT Score (Percentile)a Category I 93-99
Category II 65-92
Category IIIA 50-64
Category IIIB 31-49
Category IV 10-30
Category V 1-9 Source: Congressional Budget Office.
a. Individual scores on the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) are measured in terms of the distribution of scores of a nationally representative sample of young people. For example, someone whose test results fall in the 72nd percentile of that distribution receives an AFQT score of 72 (and is in category II).
Data from 1960 through the first half of 1973 indicate that new service members' AFQT scores were generally lower during the draft era than they have been under the all-volunteer force.(53) During the 1960-1973 period, 37 percent of male recruits scored in the top two categories, compared with 43 percent of male and female recruits in 2006 (see Figure 4).(54) In addition, 19 percent of draft-era recruits were in category IV, versus less than 2 percent last year.
ASVAB. Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
Description of "aptitude" across the feasible population of recruits hasn't seemingly budged --according to Army Times-- since 1966. However, 2006 figures at least suggest, as much as the Pentagon would like to integrate the forces the public school system simply can't provide qualified stock! damn. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
America only has 9% of the population in the bottom 10%
Similarly, the headline is spectacularly wrong: the study does not say that one third of kids are too fat or sickly, it says that one third of those rejected by the army are rejectyed because they are fact or sickly.
Not quite the same thing... In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
