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If you're going to talk about the origins of the SAT, don't forget that it was designed by a eugenicist to try to exclude black candidates. Ironically, the pro
by drewcoo 3y ago
If you're going to talk about the origins of the SAT, don't forget that it was designed by a eugenicist to try to exclude black candidates.
Ironically, the problem with them now is that they're now used to exclude white people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_SAT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_SAT
- ren_engineer 3y agoEugenics was hot among progressive academics in those days, the founder of Planned Parenthood was one and so was the guy whose statistical methods are still the basis for all modern research back then being against eugenics meant you were a crazy religious nutcase who couldn't accept scientific fact about evolution and genetics
- camdenlock 3y agoProgressive academics, all the way up to the president of the United States (Woodrow Wilson). It should be embarrassing to call oneself a “Progressive” these days, yet here we are. A small but meaningful indicator of the extreme bias in our education system…
- jltsiren 3y agoEugenics was always a politically motivated and highly contested topic. Many prominent scientists in relevant fields were opposed to it. It became popular, because nationalism used to be popular among the elite. Then it declined quickly, because WW2 made everything associated with nationalism undesirable in the West.