(July 18, 2011 at 1:22 am)Epimethean Wrote: Interesting point on IQ tests:Yeah, I've heard that bullshit 'argument' before. Too bad there names were Goddard, Terman and Brighan and not Li, Wang and Zhang. Then, the argument might not be a complete waste of time.
"Few people realize that the tests today represent the end result of a historical process that has its origins in racial and cultural bigotry. Many of the founding fathers of the modern testing industry-including Goddard, Terman and Carl Brighan (the developer of the Scholastic Aptitude Test)-advocated eugenics."
http://iq-test.learninginfo.org/iq01.htm
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