Alfred Binet

Alfred Binet (July 11, 1857 - October 18, 1911), French psychologist and inventor of the IQ test.

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Binet, who created the Ip test in 1904, was aiming to identify students who could benefit from extra help in school: his assumption was that lower IQ indicated the need for more teaching, not an inability to learn.Albert lived from 1857 to 1911 he created the IQ test 7 years before he died.

External links:

• http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/binet.html
• http://www.src.uchicago.edu/users/sjack/classes/psc226/gould/node3.html
• http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Binet/binet1.htm

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