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"Reading about the early intelligence research is always difficult for psychologists because it requires them to face one of the gloomiest episodes in the history of their discipline. However, awareness darker side of intelligence research is important for two reasons. First, it alerts us to the potential problems with interpreting performance on intelligence tests, especially in terms of cultural and class bias. This is a topic that we will return to in Chapter 3. Second, scientific racism, of the kind manifested in the interpretation of the results of the army testing programme, is not just of historical interest. Claims about certain ethnic and racial groups possessing inferior intelligence still circulate in society, and are often found in propaganda of far-right movements (William and Law, 2012). Moreover, far-right movements have been helped in their project by some misinformed and discredited interpretations of psychological research, including The Bell Curve which you read about in Section 1. Such works continue to attribute differences in performance on a set of tests to differences in innate ability, rather than to differences in education, experience or opportunities, or the biased nature of the tests. The history of intelligence research provides a powerful reminder of why it is important to debunk this kind of bad science, which still raises its ugly head every now and then" (p.61). https://www.studocu.com/en-gb/document/the-open-university/investigating-psychology-1/chapter-2-32-3-in-depth-notes-on-the-investigating-intelligence-textbook-from-the-de100-module/16844027 Possible source: Jovan Byford, Jean McAvoy, Philip Banyard (2014) 'Investigating Intelligence', Milton Keynes, The Open University. #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #TheoryPsychology #BeliefPseudoscienceScientificRacism ^[Wikipedia]

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Supplementary ^{[United Nations]} And https://www.wired.co.uk/article/superior-the-return-of-race-science-angela-saini