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Intelligence quotient

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An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a number derived from a test that claims to measure intelligence. It is based on racism and capitalism.[1]

History

Chart from the First World War claiming to rank different nationalities by intelligence, with A being the smartest and E being the least smart

Lewis Terman created the Stanford-Binet scale in 1916 and planned to set a minimum IQ for every job. He experimented on Mexicans, Jews, and indigenous people in San Quentin Prison and claimed that non-whites and foreigners were less intelligent.

In 1917, Terman worked with Carl Brigham, Henry Goddard, and Robert Yerkes to test 1.7 million soldiers for the First World War and split the army into a literate Army Alpha and an illiterate Army Beta. The Alpha test had a question asking, "Why are criminals locked up?", to which the correct answer was "to protect society" and not "to make them work." The tests claimed that Black people were less intelligent.

In 1923, Brigham published A Study of American Intelligence, which ranked Nordic countries at the top and Africa at the bottom. Italy and Ireland were also ranked below England. He blamed interracial marriage for decreasing intelligence and called for racist immigration restrictions. Brigham later created the scholastic aptitude test (SAT).[1]

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