I.Q.A Smart History of a Failed Idea

Presented by: Tom Green

COUSINS

Charles Darwin Sir Francis Galton

ALFRED BINETInventor of the first IQ test 1908

Classify feeble-minded children

Moron (Highest functioning

feeble-minded)

Imbiciles

Idiots

EUGENICS IN AMERICASir Francis Galton coined the term eugenics, and the phrase “Nature versus Nurture” in his book Hereditary Genius, published in 1869.

LEWIS MADISON TERMANWas instrumental in the inclusion of IQ testing in the military; he developed the first mass IQ test which was used on 1.7 million soldiers during WW I. In public schools, he studied gifted, and feeble-minded children alike. To increase the efficiency of America’s growing public schools.

AMERICAN INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF IQ TESTING

Psychologyst Herbert Henry Goddard was the instramental in the establishment of IQ testing in the NJ school system.

Goddard worked in an isolationist Training School in NJ, called Vineland, but it was know by it’s residents as “Quaker Jail”.

Deborah Kallikak

DEBORAH KALLIKAK

5th generation descendent of Martin Kallikak

ELLIS ISLAND FROM AFAR“GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE, YOUR WRECHED REFUSE FROM YOUR TEAMING SHORES …”

UNLESS …

You’re “Defective”

DEFECTIVES ARE RETURNED

Chalk Marks Used to Label Defectives

“The Line” & the ~6 second inspection

EARLY DETECTION OF DEFECTIVESTypes of testing used for illiterate or non-English speaking immigrants, and children.

ARNOLD GESELLb. 21 June 1880 in Alma, Wisconsin, USA

H.S. Diploma 1896

Stevens Point Normal School

UW-Madison – Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1903

Ph. D. from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; 1906

m. Beatrice Chandler – 1910

M.D. from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA; 1915

d. 29 May 1961 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Evidence:A Sociological

Contrast

But that was a long time ago – right?Is discrimination based on intelligence over?

IQ AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS - RANKING BY IQAuthors Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhnen 2002 and 2006

The USA is 22nd

Average IQ of 98

IQ AND GLOBAL INEQUALITY - GLOBAL VIEWThe USA is THIRD in per capita GDP behind Japan and Singapore

Average IQ of 100