In other words, eugenics, a concept, which the writer thankfully abandoned shortly thereafter.

换句话说，优生，一个概念，天，者不久就放弃。

The intersection of eugenics and IQ testing influenced not only science, but policy as well.

优生学和智商测试之间形成的关联不仅影响科学，也影响政策。

And we tried to fit in then every other person into one of these categories, and that...really influenced eugenics.

我们试图让所有都归入这些种类型，这确实影响优生学。”

There was a eugenics rising, and my grandparents realized, pretty quickly I think, that they were on the wrong side of the eugenics equation.

当时有一种优生学正在兴起，我想我爷爷，应该很快就明白，在优生学方面，他们选错。

And in fact, we can just go back one century to the last century to see the power that eugenics can have.

实际上，我们只要回到上个世纪，就能看到优生学带来什么影响。

He also embraced eugenics, writing about how he believed black people to be inferior to white people in Notes on the State of Virginia.

他还信奉种改良学，他在《弗吉尼亚州笔记》中写道，他认为黑劣于白。

Under the influence of eugenics, scientists used the results of the military initiative to make erroneous claims that certain racial groups were intellectually superior to others.

在优生学的影响下，科学家们利用军事倡议的结果，提出一种错误的主张：某些种族的们在智力上优于其他种族。

At that time, many people believed in eugenics, the idea that desirable and undesirable genetic traits could and should be controlled in humans through selective breeding.

当时，很多都相信优生学（eugenics），形容理想和不理想的遗传性状可以且应该通过选择性育种来控制。