“ But there are no measures of ‘unaided’ ability, nor are we really interested in them. There are some people who can remember long columns of figures and others who are good at adding and multiplying large numbers in their heads. So why do we give written I.Q. tests, which, after all, are simply giving the crutch of paper and pencil to people who do not have the ‘unaided’ ability to do mental arithmetic? Indeed, why do we allow people taking mental tests to wear eyeglasses, if we are interested in culturally unmodified ‘naked’ abilities?
— R. C. Lewontin, Biology as Ideology (via ubuwaits)
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