Explain Binet’s reservations about intelligence testing.
What will be an ideal response?
While Binet believed that inheritance may place an upper limit on a person’s
intellectual ability, he believed that almost everyone functions below their intellectual
capabilities; therefore, everyone can grow intellectually, regardless of how they score
on an intelligence test. Binet worried that teachers might give up on students who
received low scores on an intelligence test. He thought that intelligence was too
complex to be represented by a simple term or number (as in the IQ). He warned that
extreme caution should be used when interpreting a child’s intellectual age because it
was quite common for students to have an intellectual age that was lower than their
chronological age, and that poor test performance did not necessarily mean that a
child had intellectual deficiencies.
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