IQ Scores: IQ Score Interpretation IQ scores are often misunderstood. Learn the basics of IQ score interpretation in this article. Intelligence testing began in earnest in France, when in 1904 psychologist Alfred Binet was commissioned by the French government to find a method to differentiate between children who were intellectually normal and those who were inferior. The purpose was to put the latter into special schools. There they would receive more individual attention and the disruption they caused in the education of intellectually normal children could be avoided. |