>>11644390Famously wrong.
So famously, he's used as an example on how wrong he was.
Turns out, if you test kids, who haven't recieved the same level of mental stimulation at a young age, who go to poorer schooling, and test them in a medium they're less familiar with then others, they'll do poorer.
As an example, people used drawing skills for most child IQ tests, as a way to analyse depictions of image and space in regards to age.
Turns out, in places like africa, where pencils aren't so common, kids don't know how to work them and do poorly.
Give them a medium they know however, like No 8 wire, and they do just as well as most western kids with pencils.
When you set a test with a fundamental bias towards one way of life, be it geographical, social, political, economical, or anything else relevant to the situation, it's biased to it, and only valid for those in that exact way of life themselves. Who could have known?
