Replacing a tank gunner who had scored Category IV with one who'd scored Category IIIA (in the 50th to 64th percentile (on the army's aptitude test)) improved the chances of hitting a target by 34 percent.
Also, on the same subject, Yglesias:
The proximate cause of the bad-for-counterinsurgency recruiting situation is the fact that we're trying to wage a counterinsurgency.
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