Toni

“They counted in their ranks chemists, economists, historians, physicists, political scientists, and zoologists, but no minorities or women. “We did not take any Oriental students, of whom there were several, feeling that since they came from a different type of background, they would require special consideration,” MacKinnon explained in his research briefing. As for women, he could admit only that “the problem of the successful woman in what remain largely male professions has not been much discussed by us”—an “unconscious omission,” he claimed, on the part of his staff. Black-and-white photographs of the first test subjects confirm that life inside 2240 did not look all that dissimilar from life inside the fraternity house it had once been. Here was a group of elite white men handpicked to “participate in games and other competitions and collaborations, engage in social conversations, and submit to organized interviews.”
― Merve Emre, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing