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The start of it all – the first intelligence test

The first intelligence test along modern lines was created by the Frenchman Alfred Binet in 1905. Binet had been set the task by the Parisian school authorities of devising a test that would select those children who were unlikely to learn much from being in ordinary schools, so that they could then be given special education. Binet's test gave different questions to children of different ages and was based on their general knowledge, and their ability to reason and solve problems. His test consisted of some 30 items, ranging from the ability to touch parts of one's face to more abstract concepts. It was sufficiently successful that it correlated well with teachers' estimates of children's ability such that those who scored highly were judged to be ‘bright', whereas those who did poorly were judged ‘dull' or retarded. A modern version of Binet's test is still much used today – the Stanford-Binet test.

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