Adolph Hitler was a big fan of standardized testing.
It helped justify much of the horrors of the Nazi regime.
“National Socialism is nothing but applied biology,” he said.
In other words, it’s just science, people. Some races are simply inferior to others. Black people, Jews, Gypsies, Hispanics – they just can’t hold a candle to the superior races of Northwestern Europe.
And Hitler based much of this on the “science” of Eugenics, especially the work done in America in the 1910s and ‘20s.
Eugenicists used a flawed and biased interpretation of Gregor Mendel’s laws on heredity to argue that lawlessness, intelligence, and even economic success are passed down in families due to dominant or recessive genes. Moreover, the negative traits are widespread in certain races and the positive ones in others.
Practitioners like Carl Brigham used IQ tests to PROVE white people were just the…
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