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Carl Campbell Brigham (4 May 1890 – 24 January 1943) was a professor of psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology and pioneer in the.
Profile of educational psychologist Carl Campbell Brigham, best known for introducing the Scholastic Aptitude Test in 1926 for the College Entrance.

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Carl Campbell Brigham (4 May 1890 – 24 January 1943) was a professor of psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology and pioneer in the field of psychometrics. His early writings influenced the eugenics movement and anti-immigration legislation in the United States, but he later disowned these views. He was a chairman of the College Board from 1923 to 1926 and was the creator of the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

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Carl Campbell Brigham was born 4 May 1890 in Marlborough, Massachusetts to Charles Francis Brigham and Ida B. (Campbell) Brigham, the third of four children. His family has roots in the early Massachusetts Bay Colony with an

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Inventing The SAT

“We must face a possibility of racial admixture here that is infinitely worse than that faced by any European country today, for we are incorporating the Negro into our racial stock, while all of Europe is comparatively free from this taint.”

From A Study of American Intelligence, by Carl Campbell Brigham

Carl Campbell Brigham was a young professor of psychology at Princeton. His book, published by the university’s own press in 1923, was a painstaking analysis of the Army Mental Tests, which Brigham had helped administer to new recruits at the time of America’s entry into World War I. Brigham’s work with soldiers had convinced him that Catholics, Greeks, Hungarians, Italians, Jews, Poles, Russians, Turks, and–especially–Negroes were innately less intelligent than people whose ancestors were born in countries that abounded in natural blonds. In his book he argued passionately for stricter immigration laws and, within America’s borders, for an end to the “infiltration of white blood into the Negro.”

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Brigham, Carl Campbell (1890-1943), educational psychologist

rev. Nov. 23, 1992 BRIGHAM, CARL CAMPBELL (4 May 1890-24 Jan. 1943), educational psychologist, was born in Marlboro, Massachusetts, the son of Charles Francis Brigham and Ida Campbell. His most notable accomplishment was the creation of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which has been taken by over 50 million college applicants since 1926, but in recent years, he has more often been remembered for the marked change in his views concerning the usefulness of tests for drawing conclusions about the intelligence of racial and ethnic groups. Descended from early settlers residing in New England since the 1630s, including William Brewster, a signer of the Mayflower Compact, Brigham's assertive character was developed by the age of 18, when, after following in his brother's footsteps to Harvard University, he immediately transferred to Princeton without telling his family of his plans. As recalled by his classmate, attorney Chauncey Belknap, Brigham only became a serious student in his junior year, when he became dee