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Interestingly, even at Fort Jackson, where the low-aptitude recruits were 59 percent black, versus only 16 percent black in the high-aptitude group, the leadership ratings were identical for the two groups. Goffard et al. also reported differences in disciplinary rates between the two aptitude groups. Averaged across the three sites, over 95 percent of the Iowaptitude group and 98 percent of the high-aptitude group had no disciplinary actions taken against them. Special Study 2: Training Performance of Air Force Project 100,000 Men As part of the research to evaluate the performance of Project 100,000 men, Grunzke, Guinn, and Stauffer (1970) studied the training success and job proficiency of over twenty-six thousand air force Project 100,000 personnel who entered the air force during the period 1 April 1967 through 31 March 1968.
Separate analyses were given for whites and blacks on all the tests. Of special interest to the researchers in the project and to the present report were the differences between fighters and nonfighters on Army Aptitude Area I, which Thomas G. Stieht 40 FIGURE (» Performance of White and Black Soldiers on Job Knowledge and Performance Tests and Supenolsor Ratings of Proficiency 100 90 t). LJ. 9. II '" en ::l o II e0 ~j ~ II :';l ~ ~ oil > 80 69 l: 0 ~ ~ j~ oilQ" > < < 70 60 50 42 40 30 20 10 0 AFQT JOB JOB KNOWLEDGE SAMPLE TEST TEST SUPERVISOR RATING JOB PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Source: Vineberg and Taylor (1972), tables 48, 49, 50, and 51.
Over 25 percent were no longer mental category IVs, but rather men of average mental aptitude. Presumably they had been permitted to retalce the AFQT as a consequence of meeting education and other requirements that the military sometimes set as prerequisites for applying to retalce its aptibJde tests. Consistent with the data showing improved AFQT scores were findings that the Project 100,000 careerists had improved their occupations. Combat, service, and supply jobs were down, and administrative, communications, and other technical jobs were up.