Delta and college GPA

[rumpletumbler]

I don't get it. If a company wants to require a degree that's their prerogative.

There are plenty of idiots with degrees and plenty of smart people without them and vice versa.

What's the end game here? Do the you don't need one folks want the government to regulate hiring at Delta? Maybe just go to an office like one where you would be given food stamps and fill out a request and be given a job at Delta?

 

[pilotyip]

There are plenty of idiots with degrees and plenty of smart people without them and vice versa.

Thank you we argree upon something, but it is a stupid requirement that has nothing to do with flying an airplane. Now if they made a score of 29 on the ACT test a requirement then they woudl looking for intelligence, not just a piece of paper.

 

[DCAA320]

Why aren't you?

Is ASA your boyfriend?

 

[DCAA320]

I'm no longer at a regional... And the sentiment is returned. Go forth and multiply.

Where are you?

 

[PCL_128]

Thank you we argree upon something, but it is a stupid requirement that has nothing to do with flying an airplane. Now if they made a score of 29 on the ACT test a requirement then they woudl looking for intelligence, not just a piece of paper.

The ACT does not measure intelligence.

 

[Mercyful Fate]

The ACT does not measure intelligence.

Dang rights..making up stories about being a business owner on a forum board does.

 

[pilotyip]

The ACT does not measure intelligence.

Then why is it used as screening device at all the major universities and service academy? I believe there is a correlation between that score and success in a learning environment
.

 

[jonjuan]

The ACT does not measure intelligence.

Nor does alpa.

 

[ASA_Aviator]

Then why is it used as screening device at all the major universities and service academy? I believe there is a correlation between that score and success in a learning environment
.

Intelligence and success in a learning environment are not the same thing.

 

[PCL_128]

Then why is it used as screening device at all the major universities and service academy?

Because it measures college aptitude. Not the same thing as intelligence. Someone with an IQ of 100 but an ACT score of 29 may be very well suited to succeed in a college environment because that person has acquired excellent learning and study skills, but that person's innate intelligence is still merely average. If you want to measure intelligence, you need to use something like the Stanford-Binet IQ test. Knowledge, aptitude, and intelligence are all different things.