In antiquity, Aristotle, who is today recognised as the founder of modern philosophy, argued in his Politics that some men were born barbarians while some were born to rule. Aristotle was expressing an idea that has shown up throughout history in many forms; the idea that some people are born superior to others. This argument would take many forms across many places throughout history, but it would take on a new form as the 19th century came to a close.

At the birth of the 20th century, a handful of psychologists from France, England, Germany, and the United States would develop the field that is today known as Psychometric Testing and the concept at the core of it: IQ.

Today, IQ tests are ubiquitous: Essentially every major corporation uses some kind of psychometric testing in their hiring; Websites are littered with "Test Your IQ" click-bait; And there are best sellers that argue, in as many words, that IQ Tests are indeed the measure of a man.

BGRI's Psychometric Testing Project seeks to shed a critical light on Psychometric tests and the concept of IQ. By first stepping aside from the houndlike obsession on empiricism, to focus on evaluating the philosophy of the field, the claim, the history of the idea of ranking human beings, and the complexities of mathematical modeling of such an amorphous concept as intelligence, we seek to shed a sobering light.