This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In France in the 1860s, a teenage boy took ...

French psychologist Alfred Binet (1859-1911) took a different tack than most psychologists of his day: he was interested in the workings of the normal mind rather than the pathology of mental illness.

Who was smarter--Galileo or Mozart? Answering that question seems impossible. After all, the former was an astronomer, the latter, a composer. Asking which of the two was smarter seems akin to forcing ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1908, the Frenchmen Alfred Binet ...

Intelligence tests are among the most influential - but also controversial - innovations of the 20th century. Alfred Binet set out with the best of intentions to determine how to place children in the ...

Beginning in the 1900s, scientists began to develop different methods for measuring intelligence. These tests were used often to justify racial and ethnic discrimination. The results of these ...