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"In 1908, Henry Goddard translated the Binet intelligence test from French and in 1912 began to apply the test to incoming immigrants on Ellis Island.[104] Some claim that in a study of immigrants Goddard reached the conclusion that 87% of Russians, 83% of Jews, 80% of Hungarians, and 79% of Italians were feeble-minded and had a mental age less than 12.[105] Some have also claimed that this information was taken as "evidence" by lawmakers and thus it affected social policy for years. Goddard concluded that "we may be confident that their children will be of average intelligence and if rightly brought up will be good citizens".[107] In 1996 the American Psychological Association's Board of Scientific Affairs stated that IQ tests were not discriminatory towards any ethnic/racial groups.[108]