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In the 1920s and 1930s it was thought that the numbers of

the poor increasing, even as the numbers of the upper class were
going down, represented a threat. In 1925, for instance, Julian
Huxley wrote the following in Nature magazine:
The proportion of desirables is decreasing, of undesirables is
increasing. The situation must be got in hand. 113
According to the eugenicists, the first step to ensure a bal-

ance between the "desirables" and "undesirables" was so-called
racial hygiene. First, it needed to be determined for whom
"racial hygiene" was desired and for whom it was not.
Exceedingly primitive and unbelievable means were used to
make that distinction. In Britain and the USA, for instance, peo-
ple's heads began being measured. With these campaigns under
Galton's leadership, the sizes of people's skulls were measured

and their intelligence allegedly determined from the results.
However, science would later reveal absolutely no direct rela-
tionship between skull measurements and intelligence.
Following on the skull measurements, intelligence tests
began being employed. According to the results, it was decided
that some should be sterilized and kept under lifetime observa-
tion and supervision. Later, however, it was realized that the
intelligence tests used did not provide reliable results. These

totally unreliable analyses reflected the scientific ignorance of
the times. Factors such as the conditions under which test sub-
jects were raised and the education they received were ignored,
and it was concluded only whether they were inherently intelli-
gent. In any case, the objective was not actually to secure reliable
results, but to eliminate or isolate the "undesirable" poor, the
sick and races regarded as "inferior."

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