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en-wikipedia-org-4753		Psychometrics - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5911	841	44	Some psychometric researchers focus on the construction and validation of assessment instruments such as questionnaires, tests, raters' judgments, psychological symptom scales, and personality tests. In addition, Spearman and Thurstone both made important contributions to the theory and application of factor analysis, a statistical method developed and used extensively in psychometrics.[citation needed] In the late 1950s, Leopold Szondi made an historical and epistemological assessment of the impact of statistical thinking onto psychology during previous few decades: "in the last decades, the specifically psychological thinking has been almost completely suppressed and removed, and replaced by a statistical thinking. Critics, including practitioners in the physical sciences and social activists, have argued that such definition and quantification is impossibly difficult, and that such measurements are often misused, such as with psychometric personality tests used in employment procedures: The first[citation needed]psychometric instruments were designed to measure the concept of intelligence.[9] One historical approach involved the Stanford-Binet IQ test, developed originally by the French psychologist Alfred Binet.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4753.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4753.txt