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anortonson American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth

"The qualifications for a good job, whether on an assembly line or behind a desk, mostly revolved around integrity, work ethic, and a knack for getting along"*

* also being male, White, straight, Christian

...As though the 50's were the bastion of fair hiring practices.

anortonson Neuroscientists use maps of people’s brains to predict reasoning ability

"Some brains are better than others at certain things, simply because of the way they’re wired. And now, scientists are closer to being able to determine precisely which brains those are, and how they got that way ... Intelligence research is relatively young."

No, it's not. The Eugenic movement started the quest for the "better" brain nearly a century and a half ago, and we all know how that turned out...