Alfred Binet (July 8, 1857 – October 18, 1911) was a French psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test, the Binet-Simon test.
In 1904, the French Mini...
We do not attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis and we leave unanswered the question of whether this retardation is curable, or even improveable. Alfred Binet
We do not attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis and we leave unanswered the question of whether this retardation is curable, or even improveable.
Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words. Alfred Binet
Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing. Alfred Binet
We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.
Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment. Alfred Binet
Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.
Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form. Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination. Alfred Binet
Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form. Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.
A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Alfred Binet
A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either.
We shall limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard to his present mental state. Alfred Binet
We shall limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard to his present mental state.
The intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity. Alfred Binet
The intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity.
Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded. Alfred Binet
Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded.
The statistical method gives only mediocre results. Alfred Binet
The statistical method gives only mediocre results.
Materialism is the metaphysics of those who refuse to be metaphysicians. Alfred Binet
Materialism is the metaphysics of those who refuse to be metaphysicians.
The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. Alfred Binet
The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision.
