ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Eugenics Record Office, Franz Boas, Intelligence Quotient
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Races should be different species despite interbreeding. Not be allowed to interbreed because they were fundamentally different. He messed with the data a lot. He threw out data that didn"t reach his conclusions and published it and refused to reject his hypothesis. Women shouldn"t be over-educated because of headaches. Europeans, being the most evolved, must be the furthest from chimpanzees. When you looked at the results africans seemed most evolved. He thought that being more like animals seemed more natural. Imbeciles can speak but can"t read or write. Morons merely lice among us, with moron jeans. Wanted to prevent the spread of moron jeans from spreading through america. Wrote the mind of the primitive man, race, culture and language. Neither race nor skull size track intelligence. Very complex kinship ties in savage communities. 1910 - american eugenics record office opened. Tuskegee syphilis experiment (1932 1972) cure was found 8 years into experiment, forced sterilization they did not help these men.
