Is It Ethical To Hand-Pick Your Child’s Genes? - Dr Jonathan Anomaly - #823

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
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But now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Dr. Jonathan Anomaly.
Why do people really dislike conversations about IQ?

**Jonathan Anomaly** (4:13)
I think it's pretty straightforward, and that is norms that followed the end of the Second World War. So what ends up happening in the 1920s and 30s is, IQ tests were already pretty decent by then. They did have some bias back in the day when they were invented, but they were relatively good at gauging cognitive ability. But what ended up happening is some people misused IQ to justify, for example, restrictive immigration policies in the United States first. And then, after World War II, actually, interestingly, a quick divergence here. Hitler had Jews and non-Jews, Gentiles, cognitively tested, and he found that Jews consistently scored higher on IQ tests than Germans did, and he banned IQ tests in Germany. Wow.