I would rather have smart people as cops than the violence hungry cops we hear about in the news...etc

And yeah it's not fair and it is discrimination imo

That's just stupid...and the fact that he's working as a prison guard with such a high IQ is quite disturbing.

That's quite akward, we can't be above average anymore?

I don't think smart police officers would be bad for police image either...

actually its not retarded because its obvious that if his iq tests are too high, he  might get bored quickly. duh

No, they want moronic morons who will do what they're told!

Alot of you guys are ignoring the fact that the required IQ minimum score is still above average. Calling these people morons seems like an exaggeration.

Also to those claiming discrimination, I would contend that if you're allowed to turn away people who score too low on a test then it's also fine to turn away people for scoring too high.

Now obviously since he's remained a guard all this time it proves that he wouldn't have gotten bored as far as I'm concerned, so the reasoning for the policy may be faulty, but the general concept of turning away someone for scoring too high on a test seems perfectly legitimate to me if you have a good reason. There's nothing inherently discriminatory about it unless you can say the same for testing in general.

Eh, the man with the Highest IQ in America is a bouncer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan

Having a high IQ doesn't gurantee success, in a lot of ways it HURTS success.

Hell, I had a high IQ and I had two friends with high IQ's also around the same area. 

I was the only one able to graduate college.

Why?  The other ones never developed study habits, and by the time they got to classes that required studying they were screwed.

Hell, I hadn't really developed study habits either quite honestly and had to learn as I went.

That's a good point really.  I mean, there are people who underachive at school, then there are people who are just born stupid.

Nobody thinks twice about making fun of the guy with the 85 IQ who has trouble keeping a job at McDonalds, but if his IQ was just a bit lower to where he was mentally retarded people would feel awful.  Not to say people with lower IQ's can't succeed, a lot do, because they develop great work ethics, but it's worth noting that being stupid is often genetic.

Kinda off topic, but it's something worth thinking about before laughing to hard at clips that make fun of people not knowing things.

Intelligent people are capable of questioning orders. From my personal experience, the police force is akin to a pack of dogs.