16. VBT in History (1910s): Too Many Eugenicists - a podcast by Ben Fineman and Caroline Wiita
from 2019-09-02T07:30
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Lewis Terman was one of the most influential innovators in educational psychology and IQ testing. He also believed that segregating and sterilizing "feebleminded" individuals - as determined by a biased paradigm of general intelligence - was the necessary path toward a better society. This is the second installment in our monthly series on very bad therapy through the decades.
Show Notes:
- The Uses of Intelligence Tests (Terman, 1916)
- The Vexing Legacy of Lewis Terman
- The Kallikak Family (Wikipedia)
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (PBS)
- Very Bad Therapy: Website / Facebook
Further episodes of Very Bad Therapy
Further podcasts by Ben Fineman and Caroline Wiita
Website of Ben Fineman and Caroline Wiita