The Quick Test Compared with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale as Measures of Intellectual Functioning in a Prison Clinical Setting

Abstract

The Quick Test and the WAIS were administered to 40 patients (39 males, one female) in an urban prison hospital. 34 patients were black. Chronological ages of the sample ranged from 16 to 39 yr., with a mean age of 27 yr. Analysis showed a strong positive correlation between the Quick Test IQs and the WAIS Verbal Scale IQs, Performance Scale IQs, and Full Scale IQs. These findings suggest that the Quick Test provides a reasonable estimate of conventional verbal intelligence in an urban minority prison population.