"Our purpose is to be able to measure……" — 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. ... 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. We shall limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard to his present mental state."
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10 Quotes by Alfred Binet
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Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
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Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of…
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Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a…
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I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by…
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Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images,…
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A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he…
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It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is…
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A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We…
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The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore…
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