A validation study of the Hooper Visual Organization Test using a New Zealand psychiatric hospital population is reported. The results indicate that the test should not be used with patients having IQs less than 75 and that excluding these patients there is a 14.5% false positive result for nonorganic patients and a 25% false negative result for organic patients.
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