INTEGBI 35AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Tubal Ligation, Gregor Mendel, Historiometry
17 Nov 2016
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Director of psych lab at the sorbonne. First studied head size as proxy for intelligence. Remeasured and figured out it wasn"t working. Aim was to identify children whose lack of success in normal classrooms suggested the need for some form of special education. Aim was to help and improve, not to label in order to limit. Not applicable to children who are doing fine. This is iq as we know it. Binet proclaimed that this couldn"t be a measurement of intelligence because intelligence is too complex to capture with a single number. Convert a mental concept into a thing, to make something abstract into something concrete. Sex sucked strength out of men (prolactin actually) Masturbation led to atheism, puny offspring, miscarriages. Scale from idiots to imbeciles to morons. Moron = mental age 8-12 => most dangerous to society. Don"t let native morons breed, keep foreign ones out. Most undesirable behaviors were tied to intelligence (link between intelligence and morality)
