FWIW, my mother (age 56, very capable woman with two MA degrees and
years of teaching experience), just failed the test to be a baggage
screener. She says they showed drawings of objects as they might
appear on an x-ray screen and were told to identify them, which she
was not able to do well enough. Her significant other (age
late-50s, National Guard reservist as well as some sort of
government employee) also failed it.
On the one hand, I'm a little disturbed that people are being shown
drawings of x-rays rather than, say, actual x-rays. On the other
hand, the test was hardly a gimme as both of these folks are quite
intelligent (though perhaps not intelligent in the way that one
needs to be intelligent to be a good screener. But we'll never
know, because they were looking at drawings of x-rays.)
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