The correlation between the mean and SD of reaction time data for 270 mental retardates was estimated by computing the coefficient for thirds and fifths of the groups and combining those with the r to z technique. The estimates obtained varied from .45 to .88. The effect was demonstrated to be due to restriction of the range of values which occurred when the distribution was ordered in terms of either the mean or SD values.
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