“The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.” DoeQualityIntellectualSurfaceScalesPermitLinear Book:Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920 Source: Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920
“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. ... We do not attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis and we leave unanswered the question of whether this retardation is curable, or even improveable. We shall limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard to his present mental state.” KnowsMindChildrenStatesAbleSciencePurposeOrderLimitsNormalIntellectualCapacityIntelligentRegardDiagnosisRetardedUnansweredPrognosis Book:Works on Psychometrics Source: Works on Psychometrics
“A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.” IfsMayLittlesPersonsSeemsJudgmentIntellectualImportanceComparisonFacultyLackingMoronImbecilesGood Judgment Book:Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920 Source: Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920
“It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.” IfsMayLittlesPersonsSelfSeemsCircumstancesJudgmentIntellectualImportanceFundamentalsPracticalsComparisonFacultyInitiativeLackingGood SenseMoronAdaptingAlterationsImbecilesGood JudgmentPractical Life Author:Alfred Binet
