Binet-Simon Tests of a Thirty-Nine Months Old Child

sori outfit, as an experiment. She quickly learned the simpler plays, as the stairs, cylinders, insets, and color cards. Very early with her dawning intelligence her parents reasoned with her not only as to the wherefore of things but also as to the why of conduct. This method has greatly stimulated the child's associative faculty, and has bred a habit of weighing and comparing. In all evaluations of the Binet-Simon tests, due consideration must be given to the child's training and environment. Binet and Simon state that all their norms were determined in those primary schools in Paris which are located in the poorer quarters. It would seem that such norms must be under a normal average?as Binet and Simon tacitly admit. Then, too, the original tests were made but once and by a stranger?all of which conditions must inevitably produce a mean lower than a reasonable average; as, no doubt, investigations among children more fortunately circumstanced and by investigators well known to the children tested will continue to show. It is therefore to be expected that a child who has been the object of much loving attention, and who is tested by her own parents, would probably show a mean considerably higher than the present Binet-Simon standard. It should be added that the