Alfred binet intelligence test

French psychologist, IQ test developer (1857–1911)

Alfred Binet (French:[binɛ]; 8 July 1857 – 18 October 1911), born Alfredo Binetti, was a French psychologist who together with Théodore Simon invented the first practical intelligence test, the Binet–Simon test.^[2] In 1904,^[3] Binet took part in a commission set up by the French Ministry of Education to decide whether school children with learning difficulties should be sent to a special boarding school attached to a lunatic asylum, as advocated by the French psychiatrist and politician Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, or whether they should be educated in classes attached to regular schools as advocated by the Société libre pour l'étude psychologique de l'enfant (SLEPE) of which Binet was a member.

There was also debate over who should decide whether a child was capable enough for regular education.^[4] Bourneville argued that a psychiatrist should do this based on a medica