Intellectual Competence & the Death Penalty

An attempt to provide understandable and up-to-date information regarding intelligence testing, intelligence theories, personal competence, adaptive behavior and intellectual disability (mental retardation) as they relate to death penalty (capital punishment) issues. A particular focus will be on psychological measurement, statistical and psychometric issues.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Research brief: Trail Making Test (Connections)--Measures Gf and Gs CHC abilities (Salthouse, in press)

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Double click on image to enlarge - iPost using BlogPress from my Kevin McGrew's iPad intelligence IQ tests IQ testing IQ scores CHC ...

Court Fails To Bite on Defense Chicanery (Guest post): Atkins MR/ID decsions--Meyers v AL (2011)

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A recent Atkins MR/ID decision re: Myers v Allen (AL; 2011 , 2009 , 2007 ) has been posted to the ICDP Court Decision blogroll. In addition...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

FYiPOST: Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads

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in criminal law and procedure ejournals are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 442 The Law Enforcement Surveill...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Atkins MR/ID Court Decision: O'Neal v Ohio (2010, 2011)

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Recent Atkins decisions regarding O'Neal v Ohio. Federal magistrate's opinion from October and the recent opinion of the district ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Differential Ability Scales (DAS-II): General factor loadings and specificity - article "in press"

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Double click to enlarge image - iPost using BlogPress from my Kevin McGrew's iPad intelligence IQ tests IQ testing IQ scores CHC int...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

FYiPOST: Important new book urges "more prudent use of habeas in state criminal cases"

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This is an FYIPOST to a post at Sentencing Law and Policy blog. I am pleased to be able to blog about an important new book that arrived in...

FYiPOST: Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads

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in criminal law and procedure ejournals are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 390 EU Antitrust Enforcement Pow...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Death penalty poll@procon_org, 4/15/11 4:25 PM

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ProCon.org ( @procon_org ) 4/15/11 4:25 PM Pros/Cons: Should the death penalty be allowed? deathpenalty.procon.org/view.answers.php Sent fr...

Eligible for execution: Assessment of intellectual disability as per "Atkins": APA workshop

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Mark your calendars if you plan to attend the APA conference this fall. Dr's Karen Salekin and Dr. Greg Olley are conducting the above ...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Psychologist who cleared inmates for death row reprimanded by Texas board

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File under justice for those who practice voodoo psychometrics or what is typically called "junk science". Some of Dr. Denkowski...

FYiPOST:Videos of Stanford Law School's Law and Memory Conference

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At link below http://kolber.typepad.com/ethics_law_blog/2011/04/videos-of-stanford-law-schools-law-and-memory-conference.html Sent from KMcG...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

More on Coleman v TN: Tennessee Supreme Court endorses expert testimony concerning IQ of condemned

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Just posted the Coleman v TN decision last night.  Today SENTENCING, LAW AND POLICY had the following commentary.   ------------------- As e...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Atkins ID/MR Death Penalty Court Decision: Coleman v TN(2011)

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Another new Atkins decision being added to the ICDP decision blogroll. Coleman v TN (2011) . - iPost using BlogPress from my Kevin McGrew...
Friday, April 8, 2011

FYiPOST: Brain Injury and competency for trail: Law and Biosciences Digest

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http://lawandbiosciences.com/2011/04/08/the-daily-digest-4811/ Sent with MobileRSS HD Sent from Kevin McGrew's iPad Kevin McGrew, PhD Ed...

Top 5@SSRN, 4/8/11 1:16 PM

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SSRN ( @SSRN ) 4/8/11 1:16 PM Top 5 SSRN Papers this week: bit.ly/hmT06c Sent from KMcGrew iPhone (IQMobile). (If message includes an image-...

AP101 Brief #8 (guest brief): Independent CFA of the French WAIS-IV by Golay et al. (2011)

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This IAP AP101 Brief Report was sent to me for posting by Philippe Golay .  It is reproduced "as is" with only minor editing.  T...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

But he doesnt look mentally retarded (intellectually disabled): Guest post by Kevin Foley

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The following is a guest blog pos t by a regular ICDP contributor, Kevin Foley . But He Doesn’t Look Mentally Retarded (Intellectually Disab...

Time to Stop Executing the Mentally Retarded--The Case for Applying the Standard Error of Measurement

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I am pleased to announce that the following IAP Applied Psychometrics 101 (#11) report is now available for viewing and download. I had t...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

More on relevance of Daubert Standard to Atkins MR/ID death penalty cases

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Ten days ago I made a post about an interesting Law Review Article dealing with scientific evidence and the Daubert standard. Interesti...

Atkins MR/ID Court Decision: Jones v McNeil (Fl, 2011)

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Thanks (again) to Kevin Foley for sending me another Atkins decision.   Jones v McNeil (Fl, 2011) is now available and is being added to t...

Why IQ composite scores often are higher or lower than the subtest scores: Awesome video explanation

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This past week Dr. Joel Schneider and I released a paper called " ' Just say no' to averaging IQ subtest scores. " The re...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

FYiPOST: Robinson on Coercive Indoctrination and "Rotten Social Background"

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Recently posted to SSRN: "Are We Responsible for Who We Are? The Challenge for Criminal Law Theory in the Defenses of Coercive Indoctri...

FYiPOST: Pardo & Patterson on Neuroscience and Retributivism

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Michael S. Pardo (pictured) and Dennis Patterson (University of Alabama School of Law and European University Institute) have posted Neurosc...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

FYiPOST: Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads

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in criminal law and procedure ejournals are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 482 An Equilibrium-Adjustment Th...

IAP Applied Psychometrics 101 Report #10: "Just say no" to averaging IQ subtest scores

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Should psychologists engage in the practice of calculating simple arithmetic averages of two or more scaled or standard scores from differe...
Friday, March 25, 2011

FYiPOST: "Neuroscientific Challenges to Retributivism"

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The title of this post is the title of this notable book chapter  by Professors Michael Pardo and Dennis Patterson available via SSRN. Here ...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

FYiPOST: The Death Penalty from an International Perspective

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A recent book by Sanaz Alasti, " Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Comparative Perspective in International Conventions, the United States ...

FYiPOST: Neuroscience in courtrooms

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Article in latest SA To view this email as a web page, go here . You received this email because you opted-in to receive ...
Monday, March 21, 2011

FYiPOST: The Dana Foundation on the NYC Law and the Brain Conference

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Nicky Penttila at the Dana Foundation wrote up a brief description of some of the presentations at the recent Law and the Brain Conference i...

Law Review Article: Haug & Baird (2011)-Essay: Finding the Error in Daubert

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Thanks to Kevin Foley for sending this thought provoking Hastings Law Review Article on the Daubert standard by Haug and Baird (2011) re:...
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Dr. Kevin McGrew is Director of the Institute for Applied Psychometrics (llc). Additional information, including potential conflicts of interest resulting from commercial test development or other consultation, can be found at The MindHub(TM; http://www.themindhub.com ). General email contact is iqmcgrew@gmail.com
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