Trained assistants with extended institutional experience may differentiate feeble-minded children as well as, and sometimes better than, clinical psychologists on the Binet test¶

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q1 i? A class of trained assistants without formal psychological training, but with extended experience at institutions for mental defectives, may be qualified as well as and sometimes better than clinical psychologists to make delicate differentiations with the Binet test. → E. A. Doll 1912

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E. A. Doll 1912¶

E. A. Doll. (1912). Inexpert Binet Examiners and Their Limitations. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.jstor.org

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The author's assertion, with no supporting data, that assistants whose "extended experience at institutions for mental defectives" gave them thorough acquaintance with feeble-minded children intuitively sense distinctions that escape more knowledgeable but less experienced examiners.

"there is, however, one type of Binet examiner who may be qualified as well as, and sometimes better than, a clinical psychologist to make these delicate differentiations."

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