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That may be because OP had an agenda to push whatever the means, or simply is conservative.
BTW, anybody remembers some other studies similar to this, used to show how certain demographics were basically worse in a biological/genetic sense? Something around 1920-'30..
Phrenology was the pseudoscience that was used to enforce the ideology that white people were superior by looking at the inside of a skull and measuring certain areas and using those measurements to justify racism
Look, psychology in the early 20th century was an absolute mess. There's a reason we now have stuff like ethics boards, and strict constraints on the kind of studies that can be run.
Before that psychology was pure mad science.