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Alfred Binet

Alfred Binet was a French psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test, the Binet-Simon test. In 1904, the French Ministry of Education asked psychologist Alfred Binet to devise a method that would determine which students did not learn effectively from regular classroom instruction so they could be given remedial work. Along with his collaborator Th�odore Simon, Binet published revisions of his test in 1908 and 1911, the last of which appeared just before his death.