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cles went no further than mere assumptions. In 1906 he insisted

that the American Breeders' Association carry out studies on
eugenics. In 1910 he founded the Eugenics Record Office (ERO),
which received from 13 to 29% of the budget set aside for the
Station for Experimental Evolution. In short, the ERO was much
better financed than other scientific institutions of its time. This
organization trained many people to work on spreading the bar-
barity of eugenics. Students were taught to implement and eval-

uate various intelligence tests, such as Stanford-Binet,
intensively employed in eugenic practices. 116

The New York
Eugenics Re-
cord Office
(ERO) and
Charles B.
Davenport

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