Correlations of .91, .87, and .92 were computed between the Peabody, Form B, and WAIS Verbal, Performance, and Full Scale IQs, respectively, for 30 public school students. On this basis, the Peabody, Form B seems to be more related to the WAIS Verbal and Full Scales than to the WAIS Performance Scale. Correlations for stratified samples by race were also computed.
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