The validity of Vocabulary and Block Design (V-BD) as a short form of the WAIS, the WISC, and the WPPSI was reappraised, using a formula that takes subtest unreliability into account, and a table was presented for converting the sum of scaled scores on V-BD directly to an estimate of Full Scale IQ.
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