The SAT was built on racist IQ testing that posited a genetic intellectual hierarchy.

Evidence

American Psychological Association president and Princeton psychologist Carl C. Brigham used the results of the army intelligence tests to conjure up a genetic intellectual racial hierarchy, and a few years later, he constructed the SAT test for college admissions. White soldiers scored better, and for Brigham that was because of their superior White blood. African Americans in the North scored better than African Americans in the South, and Brigham argued that northern Blacks had a higher concentration of White blood, and that these genetically superior African Americans had sought better opportunities up North because of their greater intelligence. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 816

Categorization

• CANDY: The founder of the SAT used army IQ test data to argue northern Blacks were smarter because of more White blood — a dark, tweetable irony about a test millions take.
• XREF: Connects to the modern SAT/college-admissions debates and to claims that standardized tests encode racial assumptions; resonates with the reader’s interest in placing arguments within Kendi’s three-way scheme. — connects to: Discredited phrenology was succeeded by IQ testing defending racial hierarchy — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 60