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Article: Intelligence Tests
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INTELLIGENCE TESTS
INTELLIGENCE TESTS.
Although the tests created specifically to gauge intelligence were introduced to the United States in the early twentieth century, their roots go back much farther, even to exams in ancient China. The American tests, however, emerged directly from the work of nineteenth-century English scientists who were laying the foundation for the field of psycho-metrics: the scientific approach to measurement of psychological characteristics.
Early European Testing and the Stanford-Binet Test
Sir Francis Galton produced the first systematic investigations of the concept of intelligence. Galton seemed uniquely qualified for this task, as he was known for ...