Alfred Binet created the first IQ test to identify students needing educational help. Binet's IQ test led to the concept of ...

French psychologist Alfred Binet (1859-1911) took a different tack than most psychologists of his day: he was interested in the workings of the normal mind rather than the pathology of mental illness.

M. BINET'S volume originally appeared in the “Bibliothèque Scientifique Internationale,” and was reviewed in NATURE in July 1892 (vol. xlvi. p. 219). The subject with which it deals is beset with ...