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[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 19 points 4 months ago

Well, that's just not true, but the creator was horrified when that's how it got used anyways.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

True, Binet, the french psychologist who created the first test of this type was not a eugenicist.

But the first American to popularise the concept, was a radical eugenicist (racist, ableist etc.), Lewis Terman, and it’s his version of the IQ test that got popularised in the US.

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