I was watching a TV show last night that kept bringing up the IQ test. The show was equating a higher IQ to higher intelligence.
The IQ test was developed in the early 1900's to determine weather or not a child was retarded. The test was designed to show hos stupid the person was. Mot how smart the person was. Having a high IQ does not correlate to high intelligence. Thank you Dr. French for my enlightenment.
Also in searching for the origins of the IQ test I found out where the word moron came from. H. H. Goddard coined the term to describe a person who was in-between an idiot and a normal person. An imbecile was a person of the lowest intelligence. Now we can't use those words anymore because they have became insults.
I could just hear people back then.
"No, no sweety. You're not an idiot, you're just a moron."
And the Nazi's used it to test people. If you failed the test you got killed.
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