Taylor has suggested that where a negative relationship exists between intelligence and scores on her anxiety questionnaire, it is due to the ability of the more intelligent Ss to “outguess” the anxiety scale and present themselves in a favorable light. 84 naval cadets took the Taylor scale under instructions to give the “best” answer. Under these conditions a statistically significant correlation of —.29 between the Taylor scores and ACE scores was obtained. Where 319 Ss were given the scale under “normal” circumstances, the correlation was only .06. These results are interpreted as supporting Taylor's position.
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