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Sifting Through IQ: What We Know About Intelligence

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The Gifted Child Quarterly - What Was the Opposition?

Eugenics was a social movement where people attempted to use biology as it was known at the time to try to improve the gene pool for future generations. Inevitably, those who were politically powerful and economically dominant discovered that they had the good genes that needed to be passed on. And in the United States, one way this took shape was for sterilizations. A lot of people in gifted education at the time, including lead to hauling worth Guy Whipple were involved in eugenics. It's just amazing that you can't tell my eyes if I wasn't rolling my eyes if things weren't so bad.

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