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To: Poet who wrote (88568)4/2/2001 11:30:30 AM
From: GraceZ  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
Binet published his scale before his death in 1911, but universal testing using the Stanford-Binet wasn't advocated until 1928.

Yerkes developed the tests for the Army in 1917, called the Army Alpha tests. While IQ tests were first used widely in the Army, they were originally developed to gauge the intelligence of children across a wide section of the population.

I quote Binet:

Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded.

It was Lewis Terman that brought on the mass testing with the Stanford-Binet in the general population. By this time Binet was rolling in his grave with what had become of his original research.
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