Immigration Rates

http://www.rpi.edu/~eglash/eglash.dir/itsc.dir/notes1_11.htm

C. Brigham (US 1923):

Defends work of Yerkes, supports application to immigration law

Cultural bias is OK because we don’t want immigrants who “don’t think like Americans.”

Explained correlation of IQ with amount of time in U.S. using absolute rather than relative time.

Explanation for lower IQ in non-english speaking “Nordics”: “that’s just cultural difference”

Impact of the Army IQ test results for African Americans and Jews: segregation and 1924 immigration restriction act.

http://www.eugenics.net/papers/jprnr.html

Gould's most inflammatory allegation is to blame IQ testers for increasing the toll of the Holocaust. His thesis is that early IQ testers claimed Jews as a group scored low on their tests. This finding was then allegedly used to support passage of the restrictive Immigration Act of 1924, under which Jewish refugees were denied entry in the 1930s. Gould even claims that Henry H. Goddard in 1917 and Carl C. Brigham in 1923 labeled four-fifths of Jewish immigrants as ``feeble-minded . . . morons.''

http://adrr.com/law0/pr5y5.htm

What most people do not know is that a generation ago, when IQ and achievement tests were first administered, Jewish and Asian students were at the bottom of the test groups and deemed racially inferior.

Test scores "proved" that Jews and Asians were inferior and hopeless. Now, test scores prove that Jews and Asians are superior and that other groups are hopeless.

If you believe that, I have some ocean front property in Arizona I'd like to sell you ...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sats/interviews/lemann.html

Brigham wrote a book in 1923 called A Study of American Intelligence. This was based on his work on the Army Alpha Test. He analyzed the test results by race and found--as people who do that have always found--that people of color, Jews, Mediterraneans, anybody who wasn't a kind of what he would call a Nordic, was inherently intellectually inferior. And that the country was in big trouble because two many of these people were coming into the country. So this book is a kind of very ripe, racist book by today's standards, typical of establishment thinking of the time, although Brigham, you know, bothered to write it down. And it just stands up very well as an offensive piece of writing. Now, Brigham renounced it within about five years. To his great credit, he specifically disowned the book. He changed his mind, he broke with the eugenics movement and by the end of his life, was really one of the leading critics, of the eugenics movement. So he came around and deserves a lot of credit for that.

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