What’s it like to have a high IQ? (lemmy.ml)

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[-] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

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?

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days 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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