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Stanford-Binet

intelligence test, first published 1916 as a revision and extension of the Binet-Simon intelligence tests, from Stanford University (California, U.S.) + the name of French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911), who devised the attempt at a scientific measurement of intelligence.

Usage examples of "stanford-binet".

Although the devisers of the Stanford-Binet test consider such questions of geometric conception to be very useful in determining the "intelligence" of children, they are said to be increasingly less useful in IQ tests of teenagers and adults.