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American Campus Podcast
a social and political history of US higher ed
American Campus Podcast
The IQ test with Pepper Stetler
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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On the eugenics origins of the IQ test and why we're still using it in 2025.
References mentioned this episode:
- Pepper Stetler. 2024. A Measure of Intelligence: One Mother's Reckoning with the IQ Test. Diversion Books.
- Pepper Stetler. May 8, 2025. Trumpian “Common Sense” and the History of IQ Tests. LA Review of Books.
- Michelle Adams. 2025. The Containment. Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North. Macmillan.
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