The Eugenics Movement was based on the belief that (for instance) people of high IQ tend to have children with high IQ, while people of low IQ tend to have children of low IQ; more generally, on the theory that such behavioral traits as honesty or criminality, or traits that make for poverty or personality or character, are hereditary in some simple, straightforward fashion.
How wrong theories can persist and do harm
How wrong theories can persist and do harm
How wrong theories can persist and do harm
The Eugenics Movement was based on the belief that (for instance) people of high IQ tend to have children with high IQ, while people of low IQ tend to have children of low IQ; more generally, on the theory that such behavioral traits as honesty or criminality, or traits that make for poverty or personality or character, are hereditary in some simple, straightforward fashion.