A Data Analysis of Success in OCS, The Use of ASVAB Waivers, and Race
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Read, R.R.
Whitaker, L.R.
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1996
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1996
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Military Operations Research Society (MORS)
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Applicants for Officers Candidate
School (OCS) can receive a mental aptitude
qualification waiver based upon their scores
on the electronics portion of the Armed
Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
(ASVAB). The question arises whether the
candidates that receive a waiver have the
same success rate in OCS as those who do
not. From OCS records there is strong evidence
that the overall rate of success in OCS
is smaller for those candidates who hold a
waiver than for those candidates who do not
hold a waiver. However, closer inspection of
the data reveals that success rates change
with race in such a way that, for each racial
group, the presence or absence of a waiver is
not noticeable. That is, success is conditionally
independent of waiver. This independence
is lost when the conditioning is
removed. Thus what initially seemed to be a
waiver policy issue is confounded by the
rate of granting waivers by race and differences
in success rates by race. The OCS data are studied to expose this conundrum and to
develop sharper models for success in OCS.
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Military Operations Research, V2 N2 1996
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