In their response to the charge of nonstandard standard scores on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, Cicchetti and Sparrow have misconstrued my statistical analysis, and their own is seriously flawed. Additional evidence is given that fluctuations in the standardization data cannot be attributed to “sampling variability.”
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