Psychometrics and Juvenile Research
During the Eugenics movement, researchers started to change children's lives based on faulty testing.
Psychometrics: the science of measuring mental capacities and processes
Psychometrics: the science of measuring mental capacities and processes
The California Bureau of Juvenile Research funded many institutions to which "troubled" children where sent to. The CBJR also funded many studies on children. The Eugenicists of the time judged the need for Eugenic measures and the level "feeble-mindedness" of California.