• Darwinian Fitness never assessed
• Focused on fitness as absolute quality
• Genetic basis for traits of interest obscure
• Naive view that all traits are due to single genes
• Erroneous belief that it is possible to breed out recessive lethal alleles in a few generations
• Objective was to decrease genetic variation in population
• Measures of IQ culturally biased
• Bias masked by scientific language

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