How scienced can be used to support a politically correct agenda:

Math exercises in social Darwinism; these are real exam questions from the 1930s and 1940s. I have changed only the currency.

Question 96: The construction of a mental hospital costs $60 million. How many houses at $ 100,000 each could have been built for that amount?

Question 97. To support a mentally ill person in a hospital costs approx. $40 per day; a cripple $55, a criminal $35. Many civil servants receive only $40 per day; and secretaries only $30 per day; unskilled workers receive $20 per day even those with families.

(a) Illustrate these figures with a diagram. According to conservative estimates, there are 3 million mentally ill, epileptics, etc., in public care.

(b) How much do these people cost to keep in total, at a cost of $40 per day?

(c) How many student grants at $10,000 each could be provided from this amount of money?

[Question 97: the calculation (3 million handicapped x $40 /day = 120 million /day) x 365 days = $ 43,800,000,000 /year; divided by $10,000 = 4.38 million student grants]