[IPAC-List] Sample Quesrion from the US Border Patrol Agent Website

[Joel Wiesen]

What do you think of this sample question for US Border Patrol Agent 
(from the practice test on the official website, 
https://usahire.opm.gov/assess/pretest/bpa/landing  - linked from 
https://www.cbp.gov/careers/car/bpa-entrance-exam ):


7. Impressions made by the ridges on the ends of the fingers and thumbs 
are useful means of identification, since no two persons have the same 
pattern of ridges. If finger patterns from fingerprints are not 
decipherable, then they cannot be classified by general shape and 
contour or by pattern type. If they cannot be classified by these 
characteristics, then it is impossible to identify the person to whom 
the fingerprints belong.

 From the information given above, it CANNOT be validly concluded that

if it is possible to identify the person to whom fingerprints belong, 
then the fingerprints are decipherable

if finger patterns from fingerprints are not decipherable, then it is 
impossible to identify the person to whom the fingerprints belong

if fingerprints are decipherable, then it is impossible to identify the 
person to whom they belong
if fingerprints can be classified by general shape and contour or by 
pattern type, then they are decipherable

if it is possible to identify the person to whom fingerprints belong, 
then the fingerprints can be classified by general shape and contour or 
pattern type


-- 
Joel P. Wiesen, Ph.D., Director
Applied Personnel Research
62 Candlewood Road
Scarsdale, NY 10583-6040
http://www.linkedin.com/in/joelwiesen
(617) 244-8859
http://appliedpersonnelresearch.com




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