[quote]"A Flawed Science In his essay [b]“The Racist Origins of the SAT,” Gil Troy[/b] calls [psychologist Carl] Brigham [who helped to create the SAT] a “Pilgrim-pedigreed, eugenics-blinded bigot.” Eugenics is often defined as the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. It was developed by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race. Only after the perversion of its doctrines by the [url=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url] in World War II was the theory dismissed. “[b]All-American decency and idealism coexisted uncomfortably with these scientists’ equally American racism and closemindedness,[/b]” Troy writes. [b][French psychologist Alfred] Binet, [Stanford psychologist] Lewis Terman, and Brigham[/b] stood at the intersection of powerful intellectual, ideological, and political trends a century ago when the Age of Science and standardization began, according to Troy. “In (those) consensus-seeking times, scientists became obsessed with deviations and handicaps, both physical and intellectual,” Troy states. “And many social scientists, [b]misapplying Charles Darwin’s evolving evolutionary science[/b], and eugenics’ pseudo-science, [b]worried about maintaining white purity[/b].” Today, a reform movement is growing across the country to resist testing abuse and overuse, and to promote authentic assessment. In some communities, according to FairTest, parents, students, education support professionals, and teachers are boycotting and opting out of tests. Also, demonstrations, rallies, forums and town halls focusing on testing reform have been organized."[/quote] http://www.nea.org/home/73288.htm [quote]"[b][Lewis Terman's] support of the gifted was heartfelt, but an equally fundamental part of Terman's social plan was controlling the people at the other end of the intelligence scale. Both were aims of eugenics, a movement that gained momentum early in the 20th century.[/b] [b]The eugenicists of Terman's day held that people of different races, nationalities and classes were born with immutable differences in intelligence, character and hardiness, and that these genetic disparities called for an "aristogenic" caste system. Traits like feeblemindedness, frailty, emotional instability and "shiftlessness," they believed, were controlled by single genes and could be easily eliminated by controlling the reproduction of the "unfit." In the United States, the movement peddled a topsy-turvy form of Darwinism, claiming that the "fittest" (defined as well-to-do whites of Northern European ancestry) were reproducing too slowly and in danger of being overwhelmed by the inferior lower strata of society[/b]. America was jeopardized from within, eugenicists warned, by the rapid proliferation of people lacking intelligence and moral fiber. From without, the threat was the unchecked arrival of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. Together these groups would drag down the national stock. [b]Terman's letters and published writings show that he shared these beliefs and argued for measures to reverse society's perceived deterioration.[/b] He was a member of the prominent eugenics societies of the day. "It is more important," he wrote in 1928, "for man to acquire control over his biological evolution than to capture the energy of the atom." Yet he wasn't a renegade howling from the fringe. [b]Eugenics was "hugely popular in America and Europe among the 'better sort' before Hitler gave it a bad name," as journalist Nicholas Lemann puts it.[/b] Luminaries who supported at least part of the early eugenic agenda include George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Calvin Coolidge and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. In fact, Terman sat on the boards of two eugenics organizations with Stanford's first president, David Starr Jordan. Early eugenicists managed to push through several laws. [b]Thirty-three states, including California, passed measures requiring sterilization of the feebleminded[/b]. As a result, [b]more than 60,000 men and women in mental institutions were sterilized -- most against their will and some thinking they were getting an emergency appendectomy.[/b] [b]In 1924, Congress set quotas that drastically cut immigration from eastern and southern Europe. Though pressure to stem immigration had come from many sources, including organized labor, the quotas had an undeniably racist taint. Terman cheered these efforts.[/b] [b]During the 1930s, as the brutality of [url=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url] policies and the scientific errors of eugenic doctrines became clearer, the eugenics movement withered in the United States[/b] and Terman inched away from his harshest views. Later in life, he told friends he regretted some of his statements about "[b]inferior races[/b]." But unlike several prominent intelligence-testers, such as psychologist Henry Goddard and sat creator Carl Brigham, [b]Terman never publicly recanted[/b]. At least one eugenic measure proved as stubborn as he was. [b]News of the [url=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url]' mass sterilization program did not put an end to the practice in the United States, where sterilizations of the mentally ill and r*-worded continued well into the 1970s.[/b]"[/quote] https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-vexing-legacy-of-lewis-terman

Uhhhhh... what is this?....

[quote]Uhhhhh... what is this?....[/quote] [quote][b][u]200 IQ[/u][/b] right here folks[/quote] [quote] "The [b]Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales[/b] (or more commonly the Stanford–Binet) is an individually administered intelligence test that was revised from the original Binet–Simon Scale by Lewis M. Terman, a psychologist at Stanford University. The Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scale is now in its fifth edition (SB5) and was released in 2003. It is a cognitive ability and intelligence test that is used to diagnose developmental or intellectual deficiencies in young children. The test measures five weighted factors and consists of both verbal and nonverbal subtests. The five factors being tested are knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing, working memory, and fluid reasoning. The development of the Stanford–Binet initiated the modern field of intelligence testing and was one of the first examples of an adaptive test. The test originated in France, then was revised in the United States. It was initially created by the French psychologist Alfred Binet, who, following the introduction of a law mandating universal education by the French government, began developing a method of identifying "slow" children, so that they could be placed in special education programs, instead of labelled sick and sent to the asylum.[1] As Binet indicated, case studies might be more detailed and helpful, but the time required to test many people would be excessive. In 1916, at Stanford University, the psychologist Lewis Terman released a revised examination that became known as the Stanford–Binet test. ... One hindrance to widespread understanding of the test is its use of a variety of different measures. [b]In an effort to simplify the information gained from the Binet-Simon test into a more comprehensible and easier to understand form, German psychologist William Stern created the now well known [u]Intelligence Quotient (IQ)[/u][/b]. By comparing the age a child scored at to their biological age, a ratio is created to show the rate of their mental progress as IQ. Terman quickly grasped the idea for his Stanford revision with the adjustment of multiplying the ratios by 100 to make them easier to read."[/quote] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%E2%80%93Binet_Intelligence_Scales

Again, is this a troll...Or do you have a point?

[quote]Again, is this a troll...Or do you have a point?[/quote] ...That people shouldn't be using a flawed, racist, ableist, eugenicist 'intelligence test' to mock other people. /WWJD? Edit: Especially people who can't even clue in to the fact that the Stanford Binet / Binet-Simon test _is_ the 'Intelligence Quotient' (I.Q.) test, despite relevant paragraphs quoted and links cited, when they would have known just by looking it up on Wikipedia. ;)

There is a difference between gambit focused and only being about gambit. This is the issue with only having vague roadmaps to go off of. If you actually look at the road map, only two things mention gambit. Bungie also specifically said there would be a PvE activity. What they failed to mention was that the only way to access said PvE activity was to play gambit prime, and the only rewards from said activity would be specifically for gambit prime. It was perfectly reasonable to think that there might have at least been something for people that don't care for gambit, at least judging from what we had been shown in the roadmap, and told. Turns out people just over estimated bungies IQ.

Then you are an idiot for buying something you didn't know about.

Did you buy it? If so then you are just as much an idiot by your own logic because you didn't know anymore than anyone else, you also don't know what is coming in the next DLC.

Yes I did preorder, but I didn't give a crap what I was getting,if I did I wouldn't have purchased it. They also announced the seasons before hand. When one of them says the word drifter in it, I put 2 and 2 together, and sort of get an idea that gambit will be involved.

Bought mine with foresaken DLC things like black armory and jokers wild and pnumbra weren't really understood. But please continue to belittle those that didn't expect bungie to release a 3 month segment of only Gambit

Nothing was stopping you from returning the annual pass or waiting to buy it. You have no one to blame but yourself

Sound logic

Sarcasm?

Just a wee bit

The Annual Pass, or DLC pass, has nothing to do with Season of the Drifter. The Season of the Drifter is part of the “free seasonal updates” that Bungie does. The annual pass aka DLC portion was called “Joker’s Wild” which included the “new Gambit experience” aka Gambit Prime. If you’re going to try to insult someones I.Q. then at least have your facts right.