Bi|net-Si|mon scale

Bi|net-Si|mon scale
Bi|net-Si|mon test or Bi|net-Si|mon scale «bih NAY SY muhn»,
an individual intelligence test first published in 1905 and subsequently revised, used in schools, the armed forces, and other institutions, for determining the mental age of children or adults by means of their performance of tasks and answers to questions.
[< Alfred Binet, 1857-1911, and Théodore Simon, 1873-1964, French psychologists, who devised it]

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