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Alfred Binet

Scientist 1857–1911

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The person

About Alfred Binet

French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test (1857–1911)

Ideas represented

Creativity Integrity Knowledge Population Power Protest Reason

In their words

“Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.”

“We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.”