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What’s it like to have a high IQ? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Its origins were noble

No they most certainly were not. It's origins is in eugenics and white supremacist nonsense.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    If we ignore Alfred Binet, then sure I can get onboard with you :) Indeed, the pre-IQ head-measuring stage of racism was filled with white supremacist nonsense. In that sense, it is a history filled with pseudoscience and pain.

    Out of curiousity, would you classify Alfred Binet as an eugenicist and white supremacist?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Binet took part in a commission set up by the French Ministry of Education to decide whether school children with learning difficulties should be sent to a special boarding school attached to a lunatic asylum

    Yes.

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