Alfred Binet is a well-known French psychologist who became famous mainly for his work in the field of creating psychological tests. The method of quantitative assessment of mental abilities developed by him in 1905 together with T. Simon (the well-known Binet-Simon scale) in its improved version (Stanford-Binet scale — a modification of Stanford University professor L. Terman) is one of the most common methods to this day. intelligence diagnostics.
Binet at one time made an attempt to compare the results of his own test with the data of graphologists, according to his data, such a coincidence was established. This study was later shown to be invalid. See →