Its very hard to reconcile this tweet with the history of intelligence testing. The first attempt to standardise preIQ cognitive ability tests were by the British eugenicist Francis Galton.
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1356828640928010242
The Binet-Simon test in 1905 was intended to identify mental retardation in school children, and they were indeed French. This was standardised in 1916 by American eugenicist Lewis Tiernan into the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale.
G was introduced by the British eugenicist Charles Spearman in 1904.
The Binet and Simon Test of Intellectual Capacity was published in 1908 by the American eugenicist Henry Goddard.
The term IQ was coined by the German psychologist William Stern.
The Binet and Simon Test of Intellectual Capacity was published in 1908 by the American eugenicist Henry Goddard.
The term IQ was coined by the German psychologist William Stern.
It is impossible to disassociate the invention of standardise intelligence testing from the midwifery of eugenics, notably in London (at UCL, where I teach and write about the history of eugenics) and in the USA.
Peterson has always had a casual relationship with facts.
Erm, there were some French people involved. But I guess a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
See if you can guess what my next book is about.
Erm, there were some French people involved. But I guess a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
See if you can guess what my next book is about.
Important Addendum by @vaughanbell, who is very knowledgeable on this topic, though this does not exonerate Peterson’s typically casual wrongness.
https://twitter.com/vaughanbell/status/1356910031464243201
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