entity Updated 2026-08-06 Tags: Case, Psychology, Eugenics, Heredity

Kallikak Family / 卡里卡克家族

The Kallikak Family / 卡里卡克家族 is the heredity case discussed in 37.智商测试:请问你是智力婆罗门吗? through [[HenryGoddard|Henry H. Goddard / 亨利·戈达德]]’s 1912 study. The episode says Goddard used family history, interviews, neighborhood impressions, and social signs to claim that intellectual disability could be inherited across generations.

The source’s critique is that the case mixed poverty, illegitimacy, prostitution, crime, furniture, domestic condition, and reputation into a single low-intelligence story. For the wiki, the Kallikak case is a concrete example of [[PsychometricSocialSorting|psychometric social sorting]] and [[EugenicGovernance|eugenic governance]] presenting class and moral panic as scientific heredity.

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