A tool intended for support became a tool for ranking, exclusion and control.
A test made to help children was used to judge human worth.
Alfred Binet developed early intelligence testing in France to help identify children who needed educational support.
But intelligence testing was quickly used in far more dangerous ways: ranking people, judging immigrants, supporting segregation, and feeding eugenic arguments.
When a test score becomes a measure of human value, harm follows. People can be labelled deficient, uneducable, defective or unfit.
The problem is not assessment itself. The problem is when assessment becomes destiny.
Awareverse should be clear: tools are only as humane as the system using them.
A score can describe something. It should never replace the person.