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
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