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The original thinkers behind the idea of a national "Census of Abilities" were tired of the ruling elite – white, high-Protestant, privately educated, East Coast men who traced their families to the early Puritans.

They thought a new elite made up of the brightest minds from every part of the country would emerge to run America.

And these brainiacs could be found, they fervently believed, through the administration of standardized mental exams.

According to Nicholas Lemann and his book The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, these intelligent, public-spirited people would manage the large technical organizations that would be the background of the late-twentieth century United States and create – for the first time ever – an organized system that would provide opportunity to all Americans.