Alfred Binet

Alfred Binet (; July 8, 1857 – October 18, 1911) was a French psychologist who invented the first practical intelligence test, the Binet-Simon scale. The French Ministry of Education asked Binet to find a way to identify children who were slow learners so they could be given remedial work (Psychology Today, 9th edition, Carole Wade, p. 342). Along with his collaborator Théodore Simon, Binet published revisions of his intelligence scale in 1908 and 1911, the last appearing just before his death.