ABSTRACT
B i n e t is buried for most people under a distribution of I .Q .S . A few rather high ones hover round his head, small numbers of idiots straggle round his feet, thousands of normals sit upon his chest, all with labels saying ‘about ioo5. Never was an author so in need of disinterment. Historians do indeed treat him with respect. Boring,19 Murphy,28 Flugel,21 Humphrey, unite at least in awarding his bare dues. They also supply some salient references. But Binet remains the man of tests in the textbooks, where he slots into place as one of a Committee set up in 1904, by the French Ministry of Public Instruction, to consider means of distinguishing subnormal from normal children in schools.
