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To tell the truth about standardized tests,” Kendi said, “is to tell the story of the eugenicists who created and popularized these tests in the United States more than a century ago.”
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Carl Brigham wrote that African-Americans were on the low end of the racial, ethnic, and/or cultural spectrum.Testing, he believed, showed the superiority of “the Nordic race group” and warned of the “promiscuous intermingling” of new immigrants in the American gene pool
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Army testing during World War I ignited the most rapid expansion of the school testing movement.
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an aptitude test, which is presumed to measure intelligence, is appealing since at this time (1926) intelligence and ethnic origin are thought to be connected, and therefore the results of such a test could be used to limit the admissions of particularly undesirable ethnicities
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Binet, Terman, and Brigham stood at the intersection of powerful intellectual, ideological, and political trends a century ago when the Age of Science and standardization began, according to Troy.
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In (those) consensus-seeking times, scientists became obsessed with deviations and handicaps, both physical and intellectual,” Troy states. “And many social scientists, misapplying Charles Darwin’s evolving evolutionary science, and eugenics’ pseudo-science, worried about maintaining white purity.”