Robert Joesting

Quick Test Validation: Scores of Adults in a Welfare Setting

The Full Scale Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and Quick Test (QT) Form 1 were administered to 45 Ss; their ages ranged from 16 to 56 yr. (Mago = 17.81 yr.). The Full Scale WAIS MIQ was 68.24 (SD = 21.55) and the MIQ on Form 1 of the QT was 58.84 (SD = 22.14), which became 73.84 when corrected. QT IQs and raw scores yielded substantive and significant (p = .001) correlations with all WAIS raw and scaled scores.

Male and Female Prison Inmates' Differences on MMPI Scales and Revised Beta IQ

MMPI protocols of all male and female prisoners in the North Carolina Correctional System in 1971 were compared. Female inmates had significantly higher (p < .01) IQs than did the males. With the exception of the Ap, L, and K scales, males had statistically significant higher means on all MMPI scales. Women were only higher on the Ap and K scales. The males appeared significantly more emotionally disturbed, which suggests that emotionally disturbed women may be admitted to a mental hospital.

Comparison of Scores on Quick Test and Stanford-Binet, Form L-M.

Lamp and Barclay (1968) compared IQ scores on the Quick Test, Forms 1, 2, 3 (QT; Ammons & Ammons, 1962) with those on the Stanford-Binet, Form L-M (SB) for 40 retarded children in a school setting. Ss were 6 to 11 yr. and had been referred for psychological testing. They concluded that the QT can be useful in determining functional language ability and in screening intellectual levels of young school-age children. The present analysis provides a similar assessment, comparing scores of the Q T with the SB but for a rather different sample of 47 children, aged 6-10 to 13-8 yr. (M,,, = 9.8, SD = 1.85) who were referred to the first author for psychological testing. QT, Form 1, was administered first to each S, immediately followed by the SB. These children were attending school in a small southern town. There were 12 females and 35 males, having an IQ range of 51 to 131 on the SB. On the SB, the MI, was 89 ( S D = 20.36) and 75 on the Q T (SD = 20.56; t = 3.25, p = .01). This was a reverse of the res~llts of Lamp and Barclay (1968) who found the MIa on the QT significantly higher than on the SB. Using the Pearson product-moment r, the QT (Form 1 ) IQ correlated with the SB IQ .62 ( p = .01). This value was similar to Lamp and Barclays ( 1968) finding of .61 for 40 retarded children. In the current study, the SB MA and QT raw score correlated .79 ( p = ,001). Lamp and Barclays (1968) sample came from both suburban and rural communities, while the present sample came entirely from a small southern town. As the QT is a recognition test for word meaning using pictures of objects and activities and typically yields higher IQs than the standard individually administered intelligence tests (e.g., Binet, WISC), it may be that the low socio-economic level of this small southern town is associated with inhibition of recognition of these ordinary activities and objects. Even with such a restricted sample as the present one, these data further support use of the QT as a rapid determiner of a relative level of intelligence.

Correlations Among Women's Views of Contraception, Anxiety, Creativity, and Equalitarianism Measures

Summary One hundred thirty-eight female introductory psychology students at a southern state university were given the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, Schaefers Biographical Inventory Creativity, What Kind of Person Are You, Equalitarianism (Forms A and B), and four scales by the authors: Womens Views of Contraception, Sex-Role Questionnaire, Can Do, and Should Do (the last two deal with womens occupations). Womens Views of Contraception correlated with the five sex-roles scales and the creativity measures. Anxiety was related to Womens Views of Contraception and all sex-role scales except Equalitarianism Form A. The authors speculate that the rapidly changing roles of women tend to increase anxiety.

Future Problems of Gifted Girls

Dr. Catherine Bruch of the University of Georgia, stated in the 1969 issue of the Gifted Child Quarterly that &dquo;the problems of gifted girls and women have been little studied.&dquo; She suggested that here may be many under-developed potentials. Paul Heist (1964) of the Center of the Study of Higher Education at the University of California in Berkeley has found that adequate data for meaningful research on talented women is unavailable. Nevertheless, there have been a few studies of gifted girls that have been included in studies of the gifted of both sexes.

POSITION EFFECTS AND TARGET MATERIAL IN ESP

The first and third segments of a mail-in precognition test involving over 100,000 adolescent Ss used standard ESP targets while the second and fourth segments used words as targets. 50 male and 50 female protocols with high scores on the first segment and low scores on the second segment were used in the pilot study, there being twice as many of each sex for the replication. Both pilot and replicating studies showed significantly higher scoring on the fourth segment than on the third.

Differences Among Self-Descriptions of Gifted Black College Students and Their Less Intelligent Counterparts.

Perhaps the most related study concerning the Gough Adjective Check List (ACL) was done by Barron (1963) who was able to find significant differences on the ACL between people of high and low intelligence. Appleweig (1960) had 360 entering students at Connecticut College for Women fill in the ACL and found significant differences between those who were superior students (on the Dean’s list) and inferior students (probationers). The writers have been unable to locate additional studies about differences in self-description used to compare students.