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Originally Posted by WildCatFootball
I have studied things on Special Forces for a long time but I cannot join because I am too short. I always think of when SFAS was two weeks long instead of today is three weeks long. I wonder how many SF soldiers today would never have made the third week yet they make great SF soldiers today and how many 'would be' SF soldiers failed the current third week but would have been selected if it were only two. I just read a book called Outliers and it explains how it's not so much ability as it is opportunity, meaning if you took non-selects and give them a chance at the Q anyway, some of them would succeed and go on to be great SF soldiers. This is reflected in cases such as minority students who have lower GPA standards for Law and Medical school acceptance, who despite being less qualified initially, have statistically the same amount of observable success as any other doctor/lawyer. I just think it's interesting.
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Stop grasping at things you cannot get or understand.
That book has nothing to do with SF training. And your theory is full of crap. It is about ability, how you seize the opportunity is a small part of it. Many of us here went through, and graduated, before there was SFAS and we experienced around the same attrition/graduation rates as today (maybe even harder). As a matter of fact, several of us have had several gut-check schools and did well. Some here even designed the first SFAS and perfected the SFAS of today.