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The Big Test: The American Meritocracy By Nicholas Lemann

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The Big Test: The Secret History of The American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann discusses how during World War I, Carl Brigham worked as an assistant to Robert Yerkes, distributing the Army IQ tests. Like so many other IQ testers, he was a devoted eugenicist, who “felt the country was at the brink of disaster because of immigrant dilution of the native stocks” (Lemann 29). According to Brigham, the results of the Army tests offered compelling evidence to the eugenics movement. When the war ended he returned to Princeton to teach and wrote a book based on the findings of the Army tests.

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