Re: (HUMOR) "No Jews"

In Message-ID:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted on
Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:22:39 EST, Eliyahu Rooff wrote: 

>
>"Herman Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Fred Rosenblatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (kgold) wrote in message
>news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> >> "Cara Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> >> > One person I know (several years older than me) said that he did
>that
>> >> > because illiteracy lowered your able-status.
>>
>> >> When I was drafted, the sergeant giving us the written test
>explained
>> >> that a low score would not prevent use from being drafted, but that
>> >> the score would determine our jobs when we finished basic training.
>>
>> >> >From the intensity, it seemed no one was trying to fake
>illiteracy.
>>
>> >IIRC the one of the four sections of the written test I took
>consisted
>> >of multiple choice questions asking me to correctly identify pictures
>> >of pieces of machinery I had never seen before.  I would therefore be
>> >surprised if I scored more than 75%.  There is more than one form of
>> >literacy, it seems.
>>
>> I remember that part about matching patterns and lines in
>> pictures; it was supposed to identify those with shop
>> experience, of which I had none.  There was plenty of time
>> for me to figure out how to do it in the allotted time, and
>> to get a perfect score.
>
>Mechanical aptitude and spatial relationships. They go along with the
>pictures of gears, levers and mechanisms in which you're given the input
>motion and asked for the direction of the output. Some folks have to
>struggle with it, some can figure them out pretty easily, and for some
>of us it was just a matter of looking at them and seeing the (to us)
>obvious. In the 1960's, the initial screening was done using the AFQT
>(Armed Forces Qualifying Test). Having a talent for test-taking, I was
>the first one done in my group and got a perfect score. My reward for
>this was getting to take it again -- different questions -- with a
>proctor, to make sure I hadn't cheated. The second time, I made a point
>of missing a question, then let the proctor know which one I'd missed
>and what the correct answer should have been. I still ended up as a
>medic with Infantry units, though.
>
>Eliyahu
>
Some scientists claim that the body is nothing more than a
rather elaborate "organic mechanism", so perhaps the
military thought that your apparent aptitude for
understanding machinery implied that you would also be good
for repair and maintenance of the human mechanism. ? :-)

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erniegalts