Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years

Re:Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years by Hermitian909 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @02:24PM (#35305490)

I think the framing here has to be very careful: I agree with the general psychometric data that ~15% of struggle to get or keep a job delivering packages or packing things. This is not the same as packing something or delivering a package. Jobs require a certain speed of execution, ability to adapt to changing conditions, low rate of mistake, and a maximum training time.

Remember, even the army during war time, which requires people fulfilling botho f these services won't hire people with such a low IQ.

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Re:Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years by meh8881 on Sunday March 26, 2023 @04:17PM (#35319089)

Alright this one annoyed me enough to look it up.

First of all Peterson’s claim is 83, not 85.

Second, The military does not test IQ. It has a different test with a decent correlation. This test scores in percentiles however. And the bottom 10% are not allowed in. This is not the same thing as 10% of all people cannot get in, as those taking the military test are probably a lower IQ subset on average.

Probably not by much. I would guess the military is current cutting off the bottom 8-10% of the population.

I can’t find much in the way of hard stats but I still feel pretty strongly that a 10th percentile individual is more than well equipped to be a delivery driver of a warehouse worker or whatever.

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