The IQ test with Pepper Stetler

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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