Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description!
A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and re… - Alfred Binet
A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and re…
- Alfred Binet
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... Wha… - Alfred Binet
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... Wha…
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 li… - Alfred Binet
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 li…
Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates no… - Alfred Binet
Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates no…
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 intellectu… - Alfred Binet
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 intellectu…
Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion - Alfred Binet
Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a… - Alfred Binet
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a…
The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore can… - Alfred Binet
The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore can…
Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words. - Alfred Binet
Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
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