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Alfred Binet and the history of IQ testing

How Alfred Binet shaped intelligence research ...
“And she’s got the IQ of a fence post.” To understand the right’s IQ obsession, you have to go right back to the invention of Intelligence Quotients as a marker of intellect. And to do that shows that ...
A generation ago, Alan Kaufman introduced the notion of intelligent testing, which represented his philosophy of how IQ tests should be used. According to this approach: "The focus is on the child, ...