Galton thumb|upright| Miguel de Cervantes, novelist who is acknowledged as a literary genius The assessment of intelligence was initiated by Francis Galton (1822–1911) and James McKeen Cattell. They had advocated the analysis of reaction time and sensory acuity as measures of "neurophysiological efficiency" and the analysis of sensory acuity as a measure of intelligence.
Galton thumb|upright| Miguel de Cervantes novelist who is acknowledged as a literary genius The assessment of intelligence was initiated by Francis Galton (1822–1911) and James McKeen Cattell They had advocated the analysis of reaction time and sensory acuity as measures of "neurophysiological efficiency" and the analysis of sensory acuity as a measure of intelligence