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Testing for Intellectual Impairment—Some Comments Reconsidered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

R. W. Payne  and
James Inglis
R. W. Payne
Affiliation:
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
James Inglis
Affiliation:
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
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As Piercy (1959) has pointed out, it is generally agreed that currently available psychological tests for detecting brain damage (Yates, 1954; Meyer, 1957) or early dementia (Shapiro, 1952; Inglis, 1958) are by and large poorly standardized and poorly validated. If the clinical psychologist attempts such detection he can make very few positive statements if all he does is administer those standardized tests which even approximately meet the commonly accepted standards of validity.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 444 , July 1960 , pp. 1134 - 1138
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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