Abstract
Under controlled conditions, an attempt was made to assess the generalizability of Wechsler's WAIS hypotheses for the non-defective adolescent sociopath to 80 retarded juvenile offenders. Groups were separated according to race and sex while IQ, socio-economic status, and geographic location were controlled. The criteria for selection of subjects were incarceration in a state juvenile correctional facility and a Full Scale WISC IQ below 70. Results suggested that many of Wechsler's WAIS signs applicable to non-defective IQ ranges probably are not appropriate for WISC scores of these retarded delinquents. The difficulty in identifying the signs from such a truncated range of scaled scores was discussed. Post hoc analysis, nevertheless, provided some potentially useful WISC signs for combinations of race and sex of retarded delinquents. The need for cross-validation of these signs was stressed.
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