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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 12: DARK INFORMATION Bad Enough to Destroy

"Binet-Simon testing helped legitimize involuntary eugenic institutionalization in Illinois after the state’s 1915 commitment law."

Farreras finds that Binet-Simon testing facilitated classification of people as feebleminded and helped the state legitimize involuntary eugenic institutionalization.

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Source title The professionalization of psychologists as court personnel: Consequences of the first institutional commitment law for the "feebleminded"
Source authors Ingrid G. Farreras
Source year 2019
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