Educational and psychological tests have pockets of darkness in their history. A key one is eugenics, the continued connections between mental measurement and racism. The unbelievably goofy pseudo-scientist J. Phillipe Rushton is featured in my home town newspaper, the Vancouver Sun, for his silly study in which he asserts scores on the SAT demonstrate men are naturally smarter than women. Apparently no one told him the SAT doesn’t even predict success in college, let alone success in life. Apparently he is also unaware that even the test publisher says the test isn’t worth much, especially in judgements of merit, when a point spread of at least 125 is necessary to even suggest real differences exist. Rushton can’t even keep his silly science straight – he previously claimed there is an inverse relationship between intelligence and penis size. Seems to me the women have it all over the men based on this theory.
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