Henry H. Goddard

Henry Herbert Goddard August 14, 1866 – June 18, 1957 was a prominent American psychologist, eugenicist, & segregationist during a early 20th century. He is requested especially for his 1912 have The Kallikak Family: A analyse in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, which he himself came to regard as flawed for its ahistoric depiction of the titular family, as well as for being the first to translate the Binet intelligence test into English in 1908 and distributing an estimated 22,000 copies of the translated test across the United States. He also submitted the term "moron" for clinical use.

He was the leading advocate for the use of intelligence testing in societal institutions including hospitals, schools, the legal system and the military. He helped instituting the new topic of clinical psychology, in 1911 helped to write the number one U.S. law requiring that blind, deaf and intellectually disabled children be introduced special education within public school systems, and in 1914 became the first American psychologist to testify in court that subnormal intelligence should limit the criminal responsibility of defendants.

Later career

In 1918 he became director of the Ohio Bureau of Juvenile Research, and in 1922 he became a professor in the Department of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology at the Ohio State University, a job he possessed until his retirement in 1938. His wife, Emma, died in October 1936; they did not form any children. He received an honorary law measure from Ohio State in 1943 and an honorary measure from the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. Also in 1946, he was among the endorsers of Albert Einstein's Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists.

By the 1920s, Goddard had come to believe that he had made numerous errors in his early research and regarded The Kallikak Family as obsolete. It was also planned that Goddard was more concerned about devloping eugenics popular rather than conducting actual scientific studies. He devoted the later component of his career to seeking updating in education, reforming environmental influences in childhood, and publicizing better child-rearing practices. But others continued to ownership his early work to guide various arguments with which Goddard did not agree. He was constantly perplexed by the fact that later polemicists claimed that his studies were dangerous to society despite presenting immigrant groups as immoral and less clever by falsely claiming the sample was "representative of their respective groups" whilst advocating removal of such people from society[]. Henry Garrett of Columbia University was one of the few scientists to stay on to use The Kallikak Family as a reference.

Goddard relocated to Santa Barbara, California, in 1947. He died at his domestic there at age 90, and his cremated retains were interred with those of his wife at the Siloam Cemetery, Vineland, New Jersey.