Specious intelligence tests, colloquially known as IQ tests, were invented to justify incarceration of group labeled "feebleminded." Often the so-called feebleminded were just shy, too good-natured to be taken seriously, or simply spoke the wrong language or were the wrong color.
Edwin Black, "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race," p.xv
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