PROBLEM AND METHODThis study investigates the possibility that the Verbal Scale of the WAIS(1) can be abbreviated to effect a considerable saving of time without sacrifice of either reliability or the variety of functions tap ed by the original instrument.The WAIE Verbal Scale records of 100 consecutive patients aged 16 to 72 at the Middletown State Hospital were taken from the files and rescored using selected items for each subtest according to the scheme in Table 1. Every third item waa used on the Information and Vocabulary subtests; only odd items were used on Comprehension, Arithmetic and Similarities. The Digit Span waa not abbreviated. For each subtest the total raw score waa then multi lied by the a propriate factor as indicated in $able 1 and &e results converted to weighted scores in traditional manner. Wechsler's tables were then utilized as usual in obtaining the abbreviated Verbal IQs. A preliminary application of the abbreviated scale showed that it tended to exaggerate IQs over 90. For this reason all IQs of 90 or over on the abbreviated scale were corrected by subtracting 2 points from the obtained Verbal
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