Alfred Binet

Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet
Born	8 July 1857 (1857-07-08) Nice, Kingdom of Sardinia
Died	18 October 1911(1911-10-18) (aged 54)[1] Paris, France
Nationality	French
Known for	Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales Binet–Simon test
Spouse	Laure Balbiani
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology

Alfred Binet (French: [binɛ]; 8 July 1857 – 18 October 1911), born Alfredo Binetti, was a French psychologist who together with Théodore Simon invented the first practical intelligence test, the Binet–Simon test.^[2] In 1904,^[3] Binet took part in a commission set up by the French Ministry of Education to decide whether school children with learning difficulties should be sent to a special boarding school attached to a lunatic asylum, as advocated by the French psychiatrist and politician Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, or whether they should be educated in classes attached to regular schools as advocated by the Société libre pour l'étude psychologique de l'enfant (SLEPE) of which Binet was a member. There was also debate over who should decide whether a child was capable enough for regular education.^[4] Bourneville argued that a psychiatrist should do this based on a medical examination. Binet and Simon wanted this to be based on objective evidence. This was the beginning of the IQ test. A preliminary version was published in 1905. The full version was published in 1908, and slightly revised in 1911, just before Binet's death.