Website owner: James Miller
I am Anti-System. I have been since youth. Why? Where did that bias come from? What is the original source? I think the answer lies in one word: IQ. The IQ concept, IQ tests. From the time I became aware of the idea of IQ I have been outraged by it. When I was in grade school, in perhaps the 6th or 7th grade, I had to take an IQ test. I was angry. The way I handled it was to play cute games with it. I started at the back of the test and worked forward. I answered so many questions right and then so many wrong. I played with one pattern and then another. I treated it with complete contempt. I made sure that a large portion of the answers were wrong to be sure of a absurdly low score. You could force me to take the test but you couldn't force me to be honest with it. That was the way I dealt with the test and if I were given another test today I would deal with it in exactly the same way. Do you speak of government invasion of privacy? There is no invasion of privacy in this society that compares with that of the IQ test. No one, absolutely no one, has a right to try to measure another person's intelligence. Not government, not any institution, not anyone. That is private information. That is information that no one has any right to know. You don't have a right to try to measure the intelligence of an adult and you don't have a right to try to measure the intelligence of a child. There is nothing more personal and touchy than a person's intelligence. To try to put a number on it is wrong. Very wrong. IQ tests represent a monstrous injustice perpetrated against man by our society. Where does my bias against the school system come from? Where does my bias against the field of psychiatry come from? Where does my distrust of government come from? I think the original source of all these biases of mine trace back to the IQ concept and IQ tests. Apr 1999
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