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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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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