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# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:19:09.395Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.