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Epstein survivors say they felt 'degraded' and a 'lack of empathy' from AG Pam Bondi
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The military doesn't give everyone a psych eval.
Anyone seeking a higher clearance goes through one. But that's not a full accounting, the vast majority of people never need a clearance beyond the general Secret that almost everyone gets. No real psych eval for that.
Some specialized jobs get them as well. And I think some combat jobs get them by default... but mostly no. It's just the standard, "can this person both follow orders and be trusted to do the job they were hired for?"
Anyone who fucks up which most of the lower functioning ones with NPD get tested as well. It not a choice between the military and some other large sampling. Its the only place where its done at all other than in the field of psychology. which is a lot fewer people and well most of the time people in that field are victims of the subject matter we are discussing.
I know this because I have spent hours and hours reading and search for information on it and nothing you say will change it. I sure am getting a lot of push back about it here three 'people' trying tell me I'm wrong is kinda telling in and of itself. No argument you make changes anything.
I was a member of the US military. I never got any form of psych eval, and neither did anyone I knew, except for people who had a Top Secret clearance.
So your hours of reading are just wrong, or you didn't understand something. It happens.
So yeah, the people who were likely to get a psych eval were the people most likely to need one. And that creates selection bias.
Its funny how I keep getting push back for this but have got confirmation on my information from others. You were a grunt I guess and not a trouble maker so you slide on by. I guess its the people I asked since one of the people who confirmed it was a ex EOD tech and a army ranger. A real stable and trustworthy person whose word carries more weight with me than any random internet stranger.
The numbers I got were reporting from the military to the office of general accounting. Like I said the links I provided was the start of the search not the end. I know how to look up information and its not my job to do it for you or appease your doubt. Why would it create a selection bias? Because the people are smarter or more useful to the military?
I made NCO. I still never got a psych eval. It wasn't part of the process.
Again, if I had needed a Top Secret clearance there would have been one, but I never needed anything beyond Secret, which did not come with a psych eval.
The vast majority of people never get Top Secret, and never get a psych eval unless something comes up, like a major fuckup or certain combat roles.
I'm pretty sure I have already said that mentioned the fuck ups. Narcs fuck up all the time but in a setting like the military it doesn't get ignored. The second person I mentioned was a programmer in the army and he left as a E5. He had a top secret security clearance and worked a job for a few years in the private sector after he left due to that. You try to make it seem like its rare but its very common as far as I can see. Perhaps all the vets I interact with are just more trustworthy and able to be approved for a security clearance.
Three " 'people' " huh. That seem to suggest a lack of empathy towards anyone who applies a minimum amount critical thinking.
No one should take a claim like that at face value, period, and the burden of proof is on those who make the claim.
Must be a part of that 20 percent to dehumanize anyone who questions you so easily.