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CW: Racism and educational tests
"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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