Talk:Alfred Binet

Intelligence Citations Bibliography for Articles Related to Binet and to IQ Testing

I have posted a bibliography of Intelligence Citations for the use of all Wikipedians who have occasion to edit articles on human intelligence and related issues. I happen to have circulating access to a huge academic research library at a university with an active research program in those issues (and to another library that is one of the ten largest public library systems in the United States) and have been researching these issues since 1989. You are welcome to use these citations for your own research and to suggest new sources to me by comments on that page. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 19:46, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Things I've done:

-Added a spouse (w/citation)

-Removed dead-link (Charles Fere)
-Added translation
-Added influences, and influenced

Will add more.

bill 06:41, 10 January 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bill.D Nguyen (talk • contribs)

removed unsourced/speculative material

I removed this:

"During his seven years there, any and every of Charcot's views were accepted unconditionally by Binet. This of course, was where he could have used the interactions with others and training in critical thinking that a University education provided."

Perhaps this is true, but without any source it appears to be unsubtantiated speculation / editorializing on the part of whomever added it. Please feel free to restore with a source documenting Binet's "unconditional acceptance" of "any and every" of Charcot's views, and perhaps an attribution to someone of the belief that "training in critical thinking" would "of course" have changed this. Zefryl (talk) 19:17, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

I'll be checking the sources

One of the sources used in this article was cited very imcompletely, but I think I figured out what book was meant, and I am requesting that book by interlibrary loan. Much of the sourcing of this article needs a lot of work. Feel free to use the source list I have put in Wikipedia user space to check this and other articles. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 22:49, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

under 1.2

"It follows that we should question why Binet did not speak out concerning the newfound uses of his measure." editorial? TheNuszAbides (talk) 07:09, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Damned right it’s editorial, and imposing values from a later era.2001:44B8:3102:BB00:35A5:CED2:594F:117A (talk) 01:44, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

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Sections have been plagiarized from a blog

A large section of Later career and the Binet–Simon test is copy-pasted from a blog.

This is the blog: http://profed102.blogspot.com/p/alfred-binet.html

I noticed that some of the citations at the end of sentences looked weird (i.e "...compare children's mental abilities relative to those of their normal peers (Siegler, 1992).") and I reversed-searched the text to find the source.

Plagiarism starts at "In 1904 a French professional group for child psychology, La Société Libre pour l'Et..." and ends at "...the concept of intelligence as a single, unitary construct (White, 2000).",

Neuralnewt (talk) 22:06, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Much of this article reads like a term paper....

... written by a C student and handed in late. BTW, is this the way some institutions grant course credit? For creating/editing Wikipedia articles? God between us and all harm.

Please fix. Too many examples to cite, of infelicitous expressions and colloquialisms. 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:35A5:CED2:594F:117A (talk) 01:57, 23 October 2020 (UTC)