Missing a bit of sociological historicizing here. IQ and SATs were essentially designed to keep undesirables, notably Jewish, people out of academic circles. E

Missing a bit of sociological historicizing here. IQ and SATs were essentially designed to keep undesirables, notably Jewish, people out of academic circles. Eugenics and these tests marched hand in hand. > Armed with this so-called objective methodology, 3 American eugenicists advanced a straw-man rationale for large-scale testing.14 They reasoned that society needed to identify, segregate, and sterilize the "feeble-minded,"' 5 initially defined as those with mental disabili- ties' 6 but later extended to include any "unfit" person of low intelli- gence, character, or ethnicity.17 In both Germany and the United States, persecution of the "feebleminded"'18 hastened a broader eu- genic campaign against immigration, miscegenation, and other pro- fessed threats to Nordic ascendancy.1 9 https://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.ca/&httpsredir=1&article=1270&context=law-review https://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=h... https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ivy-leagues-history-of-discriminating-against-jews-2014-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ivy-leagues-history-of-d... https://twitter.com/ft_variations/status/1075782671320657920?s=21 https://twitter.com/ft_variations/status/1075782671320657920...