The IQ Test

<p>How would you feel if you found out you had a very high or a very low IQ? Would it change you? The IQ test has an awful allure to it. A single number that ranks your mental ability against everyone else’s, for better or for worse.</p><br><p>Helping Dallas explore the origins of this blasted test is John Carson, historian and author of <em>The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940.</em></p><br><p>Edited by Joseph Knight, produced by Freddy Chick, senior producer is Charlotte Long.</p><br><p>For more History Hit content, subscribe to our newsletters <a href="historyhit.com/sign-up-to-history-hit/?utm_sou…; rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here.</a> </p>

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