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D R Price1, D A Herbert, M L Walsh
1Behavior Resources, Inc., Greenville, South Carolina.
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|June 1, 1990
Abstract:
As expected, the PPVT and various forms of the Quick Test, all tests of receptive vocabulary, overestimated the three IQs of the WAIS-R, often by more than half a standard deviation for a small sample (N = 30) of psychiatric in-patients. A restricted range of scores may have contributed to spuriously high correlations among the various measures of IQ.
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