Brian Marick on Nostr: Here's an interesting fact: in the first version of the Stanford-Binet IQ test, women ...
Here's an interesting fact: in the first version of the Stanford-Binet IQ test, women on average did better than men. Since women could not be more intelligent than men, they removed questions women did better on, and replaced them with ones men did better on, until the results came out right. (Hacking, /The Social Construction of What?/, p. 173.)
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