# Alfred Binet

> He built the first working intelligence test — not to label children, but to prove they could be taught. The scale he and Théodore Simon published in 1908 became the scaffold for every IQ test that followed.

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

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Educator
- **Category:** Educators
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1857-07-08
- **Died:** 1911-10-18
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Alfred Binet was born Alfredo Binetti on 8 July 1857. In 1904, the French Ministry of Education convened a commission to settle a sharp question: should children with learning difficulties be sent to special boarding schools attached to asylums, as psychiatrist Désiré-Magloire Bourneville insisted, or educated in classes within regular schools? Binet, a member of the Société libre pour l'étude psychologique de l'enfant, believed the decision should rest on objective evidence, not medical opinion. He and Théodore Simon developed a test to measure it. A preliminary version appeared in 1905; the full Binet–Simon test in 1908, revised once more in 1911. Binet died on 18 October 1911, months after the final edition.

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## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Psychology, #France, #Europe, #19th Century

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