The American psychometrician Lewis Terman argued that an important use of intelligence testing was to identify and socially control people at the low and high ends of general intelligence. The reason being:
A) Genius needed to be identified so schools could put their resources toward more needy and lower level students.
B) Genius needed to be identified and nurtured for the benefit of society.
C) The feeble-minded could be nurtured and educated into the highest levels of intelligence if resources were applied.
D) all of these.
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