The things we bumpkins who can only dream of being in Biden's IQ stanine learn while lurking!— Planet Atheism
He doesn't know the difference between a scale score and stanine.— NashvilleScene.com
Negroes with a lower stanine (aptitude) had been accepted in order to secure enough candidates to meet the quota for pilots, navigators, and bombardiers in the black units.— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965
Competition for black bomber crews also led to a ludicrous situation in which men highly qualified for pilot training according to their stanine scores (achievements on the battery of qualifying tests taken by all applicants for flight service) were sent instead to navigator-bomber training, for which they were only barely qualified. [— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965

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