Estimation of Intelligence

[A_Nony_Mouse]

Prove a negative? Should I prove there is no god next?

Waste time with wikipedia juvenalia? Again?

I didn't ask you to prove a negative. You could have proven the statement wrong by presenting contrary evidence, but you didn't, now did you?

Deal with these then, they may or may not be considered "adult" enough for your tastes, but you deserve to know the truth.

"In 1905, the French psychologist Alfred Binet published the first modern test of intelligence. His principal goal was to identify students who needed special help in coping with the school curriculum."
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entr...gence_test

"The Stanford Binet-Intelligence Scale, originally the Binet-Simon Test, was designed to identify students with cognitive disabilities."
http://specialed.about.com/od/assessment...esting.htm

"The more influential tradition of mental testing was developed by Binet and his collaborator, Theodore Simon, in France. In 1904 the minister of public instruction in Paris named a commission to study or create tests that would ensure that mentally retarded children received an adequate education."
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topi...he-IQ-test

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Or WAIT! I bet it's a zionist conspiracy...

And how it that contrary to my posts saying it was a subset of the idea of quantitatively measuring, assigning numerical values, in psychometrics and biometrics? You want me to accept IQ sprang out of nothing with no context and no related ideas? Did you really expect the exact detail of the first test? Sorry I do not remember running across that before. Nor even now do I consider the original purpose relevant as it has been used differently since at least 1917 in the US.

For the record, Britannica also has a high school target audience. If you were ever a new parent recall their sales pitch.