SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: The Great Brain Robbery (Album), Ethnic Group, Quebec Sovereignty Movement
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Morton believed that intelligence is based by the size of the brain through filling the skull found out that white europeans have the biggest skulls, followed by asians, native americans and then blacks. Claims that social disparities and classes are due to biological factors blacks are poor biologically. Used his ideas to justify colonization and slavery. Morton"s measuring method of skull size is invalid. He used a small sample of 72 skulls therefore not representative enough. His studies are bias to gender women"s bodies are smaller than men, therefore their skulls are most likely to be smaller. Race, biology, and society in 1980s people believed that intelligence is solely based on biology. Therefore, they would limit immigration and favour europeans countries . Would ban chinese immigration even though they scored higher than whites in iq tests. In us, jewish scored lower in iq tests than non jewish this was used for an argument against jewish immigration.
