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minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down10·1 year agoThis internet myth has got to die. ONE case in ONE department, a quarter century ago, does not mean it’s a practice. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/09/nyregion/metro-news-briefs-connecticut-judge-rules-that-police-can-bar-high-iq-scores.html
minus-squareAniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoThat just means there’s problems with the data, not that the fact is or isn’t true. Also maybe try having a data-point from inside the new millennia. As much as I wish it was, it’s not 1999 anymore.
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoCan you blame them if they can not find one from after 1999?
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoBecause the 1999 story is the origin of this talk.
minus-squareAnders429@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAnyone got a non-paywalled link?
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agohttps://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836
This internet myth has got to die. ONE case in ONE department, a quarter century ago, does not mean it’s a practice.
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/09/nyregion/metro-news-briefs-connecticut-judge-rules-that-police-can-bar-high-iq-scores.html
That just means there’s problems with the data, not that the fact is or isn’t true.
Also maybe try having a data-point from inside the new millennia. As much as I wish it was, it’s not 1999 anymore.
Can you blame them if they can not find one from after 1999?
Because the 1999 story is the origin of this talk.
Anyone got a non-paywalled link?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836