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Well, the article says they rejected 0.1% of the applicants for "feeble mindedness", and yet the rate of mental retardation in the adult population seems to be
by defen 10y ago
Well, the article says they rejected 0.1% of the applicants for "feeble mindedness", and yet the rate of mental retardation in the adult population seems to be about 0.6%
So it really doesn't seem that many people had trouble solving it.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00040023.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00040023.htm
- notahacker 10y agoMore to the point, I doubt there was much correspondence between the small set of people expelled for not completing the puzzle to the assessor's satisfaction and the (arguably larger) set of people whose presence in the United States was likely to prove problematic.