AMH 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Trachoma, Craniometry, Eugenics
14 Mar 2018
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Measuring the human skull in order to determine someone"s intelligence. There was widespread belief that immigrants are inherently germy and bring on diseases like. Trachoma (pink eye) and chlamydia (other std"s as well). How were iq tests applied negatively/poorly by scientific racism/the general population? (2: it created several degrading terms, it was used @ ellis island. Place where immigrants would go during the progressive era. The process @ ellis island was split into 2 different experiences. What were they: upper class experience, lower class experience (oo) What were the 4 steps of the lower class experience: stairs, chalk, medical inspection, iq test (oo) What are the 2 kinds of eugenics: positive eugenics (encourages reproduction in favorables, negative eugenics (forced sterilization of unfavorables) White southerners compare black health statistics from 2 periods: 1840-1860 (pre civil war) and 1870-1900 (post civil war) What is 1 big potential confounder for the extinction bias conclusion.
