Problems of the short form of the Hamburg-Wechsler Intelligence Test for Adults
Wotruba, A.; Truttmann, P.A.
Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie Neurochirurgie und Psychiatrie 135(2): 281-286
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-7273 PMID: 6523073 Document Number: 236662
A comparative study was performed using HAWIE-short form (AW + ZN + GF + MT) and the entire procedure, in which 153 psychiatric in-patients (legal-medical opinion cases), and a control group of 38 other patients were tested. Despite the proven high correlation between both HAWIE forms, it can be seen from the ascertained trend of the regression line, that the tested short form has a higher average mean value. The significant distortions, especially those in the lower I.Q. field, seem to contradict the probability of any imprudent reduction in intelligence scoring.