"Yerkes declared that ... the tests measured innate intelligence rather than education. “It behooves us to consider their reliability and their meaning, for no one of us as a citizen can afford to ignore the menace of race deterioration”."

The racist past - and present - of standardised tests in the US, by Deborah Blum in Undark.

⚠️ Long read ⚠️

https://race.undark.org/articles/born-of-eugenics-can-standardized-testing-escape-its-past

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