1. The Feebleminded Self: Measuring Intelligence, Race and Eugenics

2. Darwin’s Family Tree

3. Eugenics (“well-born”):
Francis Galton ( )
Eugenics (“well-born”):
The attempt to improve
the human race through
selective breeding

4. of notable persons with family member of talent
Galton’s Chart
of notable persons with
family member of talent
HEREDITARY GENIUS
1869

5. GALTON’S CHART OF HEREDITARY GENIUS

6. GALTON’S ANTHROPOMETRIC LABORATORY

7. GALTON’S HEAD CALIPERS, 1882

9. James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)
Professor of Psychology,
Columbia University
editor of Psychological
Review ( )
Popular Science Monthly
( ).

10. Vineland Training School, Vineland, NJ
Cottages, 1898
Central Dining Room
for Boys

11. Professional Associations for Care of Feeble-minded
1876: Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Persons (only for medical personnel).
1896: Journal of Psycho-Asthenics (weak in body)
1906—changed name: American Association for the Feeble-Minded, now admitted psychologists.

12. The Kallikak Family: A Study
Henry Herbert Goddard ( ) Director of research, Vineland Training School NJ
The Kallikak Family: A Study
in the Heredity of
Feeble-Mindedness (1912)
Feeble-Mindedness:
its Causes
And Consequences (1914)

13. Boys’ Classroom, Pennsylvania Training School
for Feeble-Minded Children, 1886

14. Military Drills at Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, c. 1890

15. Alfred Binet (1857-1911) and Théodore Simon
with Simon, “On the
necessity of establishing
a scientific diagnostic
of inferior state of intelligence”
(1905)
The Development of
Intelligence in Children
(1908)

16. BINET-SIMON TEST 1919—DUTCH VERSION

17. Degrees of Feeblemindedness
IDIOT: Mental Age less than 3 years
IMBECILE: Mental Age between 3 and 7
FEEBLEMINDED or MORON: Mental Age of 8-12 years of Age.

18. American Association for the Study of the
Feeble-Minded 1910

19. Psychologist Administering an Intelligence Test, c. 1930

20. Mental Testing in the American Educational System
American School Journal, 1922

21. Psychological Testing of Immigrants, Ellis Island
Archives of the History of Psychology, Akron, Ohio

22. Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon Intelligence ScSle IQ—Intelligence Quotient
Developed by Lewis Terman
Professor of Education
Stanford University, 1916
Mental age (Binet Score),
divided by chronological age,
multiplied by The mean
was set at 100.

23. Image from a pamphlet entitled:The Menace of the Feeble-Minded (1919)
The Kallikak
Family
H.H. Goddard
(1912)
Image from a pamphlet entitled:The Menace of the Feeble-Minded (1919)

24. From a 1915 pamphlet of the Juvenile
Protective Association of Cincinnati

25. Eugenics Organizations
Eugenics Society (London) Sir Francis Galton as Honorary President
Eugenics Record Office 1910 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory New York (under direction of biologist Charles Davenport and Harry Laughlin)
Race Betterment Foundation,Galton Society, Eugenics Education Societies and other local groups
American Eugenics Society 1923 (with 28 State committees)

26. Army Testers: APA Committee on the Psychological Examination of Recruits Yerkes, Goddard, Terman, 1917

27. Test 6 of the Army Beta Task is to fill in the missing elements
of the pictures

28. Yerkes’ Grading Instructions:
Item  4.—Any spoon at any angle in right hand receives credit. Left hand, or unattached spoon, no credit.
Item  5.—Chimney must be in the right place. No credit for smoke.
Item  8.—Plain square, cross etc., in proper location for stamp, receives credit.
Item 10.—Missing part is the rivet. Line of the ‘ear’ may be omitted.
Item 15.—Ball should be in the hand of the man. If represented in hand of woman, or in motion, no credit.
Item 16.—Single line indicating net receives credit.
Item 18.—Any representation intended for horn, pointing in any direction, receives credit.
Item 19.—Hand and powder puff must be put on proper side.
Item 20.—Diamond is the missing part. Failure to complete hilt on sword is not an error.

29. IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION ACT: 1924
TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION FROM SOUTHERN AND
EASTERN EUROPE;THOSE FROM MEDITERRANEAN
NATIONS WITH MINIMAL SCORES ON INTELLIGENCE TESTS
MENTIONED ARMY DATA
REDUCED NUMBER OF IMMIGRANTS FROM THESE
COUNTRIES TO ABOUT 15 PERCENT OR LESS FROM
PREVIOUS YEARS,
e.g. Since 1900, approx. 200,000 Italians immigrated per year.
In 1924 and after only 4,000 did per year.