re: Boy with fake gun dies after shot by officer

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Convincing story? A police department went to the Supreme Court to defend their right to not hire applicants that scored too high on the Wonderlic portion of the entrance exam because, "They would find police work too dull and move on to another field."

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One police department used a high cutoff on the Wonderlic to narrow the applicant pool. The Supreme Court decided that for a department to limit the applicant pool to a reasonable number based on the low/high cutoff was acceptable despite it being "unwise." To suggest that police departments across the United States "disqualify applicants for being too smart" is an extrapolation at best. My statement of "a convincing story" was a very poor choice of words. Perhaps your statement suggesting it was the norm was, too, and I am misunderstanding you.