Lewis Terman

The stage is measured and sorted. Terman wrote his dissertation under Hall at Clark in 1905 and became the American face of intelligence testing.¹²

Documented core

In 1916 Terman published the Stanford revision of the Binet–Simon scale, the dominant American intelligence test for decades. The decisive move is an inversion of purpose: Binet had built a test to aid struggling schoolchildren; Terman proposed using it to classify children and place them on the appropriate job-track. His eugenic commitments are on the record in his society memberships.

Edges

• influenced → The Managed Child (same-field): the child becomes a tracked population.
• cited → Francis Galton (same-field): the Galtonian tradition is the obvious lineage, but no specific documented citation is attached — held open, not asserted as transmission.

Held-open / discard

The eugenics-society memberships are standard biographical record; flagged VERIFY until checked against a primary roll. The claim as carded — that Terman advocated tracking by test — rests on the 1916 text and survives regardless.

Role in the thesis

Thesis A. Eugenics here is a co-symptom of the root — the same rank-and-administer impulse, in the theater of measurement — never a hidden cause, and never routed to any ethnic or bloodline collective.

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1. Lewis M. Terman, The Measurement of Intelligence (1916) — the Stanford revision of the Binet–Simon scale (Stanford–Binet) ↩︎

2. Terman's 1905 Clark doctorate under G. Stanley Hall; memberships in the Human Betterment Foundation, American Eugenics Society, and Eugenics Research Association ↩︎