The WAIS performance of 34 forensic and 22 civilly committed mental retardates, hospitalized in the same psychiatric facility, was assessed. Forensic retardates, in contrast to their civilly committed counterparts, scored significantly higher on the Similarities subtest and showed a somewhat consistent higher performance from other WAIS scores suggesting a trend which might reflect “street wisdom” or intellectual assets of “survival value.”
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