friendly reminder that IQ is a mostly bullshit metric devised by people who primarily valued mathematical reasoning and we really should just leave it by the wayside twitter.com/mattyglesias/s
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And was also a eugenics thing if I'm not mistaken?
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Yup, came to say this exact thing! 100% based in racism
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my understanding was that it was rooted in a genuine desire to identify children who might have learning disabilities and needed extra help, but I haven't looked into it in a while!
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(it was a horrible, biased test from the beginning, to be clear, but I didn't understand it as "keep the non-white kids out" so much as "we value X, Y, and Z in this society and kids who can't learn those we'll need extra attention" where X, Y, and Z were white values
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forgot this, oops
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Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if a misguided attempt to help was then co-opted by the eugenicists.