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.

Friday, November 29, 2013

Psychometric taxonomic models of intelligence: A visual tour from g to CHC

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Click on images to enlarge:   Posted with Blogsy
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Thomas on Substantive Habeas [feedly]

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    Shared via feedly // published on CrimProf Blog // visit site Thomas on Substantive Habeas Kimberly T...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

The CHC taxonomy of human cognitive abilities--a visual summary/overview

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I was reviewing some old PPT slides and thought I would share a few. These slides remind us that the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) model is ...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Status of Hall v. Florida Atkins IQ score related death penalty case: SCOTUSblog

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http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/freddie-lee-hall-v-florida/
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Sharing Neurolaw via BrowZine

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Neurolaw Belcher, Annabelle; Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, Vol. 1 Issue 1 – 2010: 18 - 22 ...

Sharing The rule-dependence model explains the commonalities between the Flynn effect and IQ gains via retesting via BrowZine

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The rule-dependence model explains the commonalities between the Flynn effect and IQ gains via retesting Armstrong, Elijah L.; Woodley, Mic...

Article: High Court May Clarify Rule on Impairment and Death Penalty

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High Court May Clarify Rule on Impairment and Death Penalty http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/us/high-court-may-clarify-rule-on-impairment-a...

SCOTUS to rule of IQ related issued (SEM) in Atkins MR/ID Florida death penalty case

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Kevin McGrew ( @iqmobile ) 11/23/13, 10:41 AM High Court May Clarify Rule on Impairment and Death Penalty nyti.ms/1dmUaSL Download the offic...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Alabama Case on Judicial Death Sentences [feedly]

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    Shared via feedly // published on Death Penalty Information Center // visit site Supreme Court Declines to ...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Article: BioEdge: Judges should enrol in Neuroscience 101, says US bioethicist

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BioEdge: Judges should enrol in Neuroscience 101, says US bioethicist http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/10773 Sen...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

McGrew (2009) CHC article # 1 cited article in Intelligence since 2008

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Warning, this is a blow-my-own-horn post. Today I visited the ISIR journal of Intelligence web page---the premiere journal for intelligen...

Article: 2014 Call for AAIDD Presentations

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2014 Call for Presentations http://aaidd.org/education/annual-conference/2014-call-for-presentations Sent via Flipboard
Monday, November 11, 2013

Article: US courts see rise in defendants blaming their brains for criminal acts

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US courts see rise in defendants blaming their brains for criminal acts http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/10/us-rise-defendants-blam...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Sharing Memory functioning in individuals with traumatic brain injury: An examination of the Wechsler Memory Scale–Fourth Edition (WMS–IV) via BrowZine

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Memory functioning in individuals with traumatic brain injury: An examination of the Wechsler Memory Scale–Fourth Edition (WMS–IV) Carlozzi...

Sharing Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Third Edition profiles and their relationship to self-reported outcome following traumatic brain injury via BrowZine

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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Third Edition profiles and their relationship to self-reported outcome following traumatic brain injury H...

Age-related change in Wechsler IQ norms after adjustment for the Flynn effect: Estimates from three computational models [feedly]

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    Shared via feedly // published on JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY - Web of Knowledge // visi...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Law Review Article: Defining intellectual disability and establishing a standard of proof: Suggestions for a national model standard

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This article can be viewed here. Click on images to enlarge. This article has been added to the Law Review blog rol l. P...

Is the WAIS-IV factor structure the same in samples of people with ID/MR? This article says "yes"

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Double click on images to enlarge             Posted with Blogsy
Saturday, November 2, 2013

RadioLab explores criminal culpability and the brain [feedly]

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    Shared via feedly // published on In the news by Karen Franklin PhD // visit site RadioLab explores crimina...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Video: Death Penalty Weekly Review - October 25, 2013 - two MR/ID prominent cases

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Death Penalty Weekly Review - October 25, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GgrVkP-TII Sent via Flipboard *******************************...

The Journal of Law and the Biosciences Is Launched! [feedly]

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    Shared via feedly // published on Law and Biosciences Blog // visit site The Journal of Law and the Bioscie...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Hall v Florida Atkins ID SCOTUS review: ICDP prior comments re SEM and problems with Florida's Atkins criteria

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The Hall v Florida Atkins case, which will be reviewed by SCOTUS, has been generating considerable buzz the past few days, including an edit...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Hall v. Florida : SCOTUSblog [feedly]

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  Hall v. Florida : SCOTUSblog Navigated from Hall v. Florida : SCOTUSblog | shared via feedly mobile ...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Does g (general intelligence) exist? Schneider & McGrew's ((2012) position

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Click on image to enlarge for reading. This is from "The Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory of Intelligence" chapter (warning...thus is ...

Talk in Georgia about modifying its (too) tough approach to Atkins death penalty issue [feedly]

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    Shared via feedly // published on Sentencing Law and Policy // visit site Talk in Georgia about modifying i...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

"The Federal Death Penalty and the Constitutionality of Capital Punishment" [feedly]

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    Shared via feedly // published on Sentencing Law and Policy // visit site "The Federal Death Penalty a...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Phillips on Psychopaths, Brain Scans, and Death Penalty Cases [feedly]

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    Shared via feedly // published on CrimProf Blog // visit site Phillips on Psychopaths, Brain Scans, and Dea...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Article: Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence: Third Edition

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Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence: Third Edition http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13163#.UlW8Kb3Sw8U.twitter Sent via Flipboar...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Bessler on the Supreme Court's Death Penalty Jurisprudence [feedly]

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    Shared via feedly // published on CrimProf Blog // visit site Bessler on the Supreme Court's Death Pena...
Monday, October 7, 2013

SUPREME COURT: High Court Declines to Review Georgia's Unusual Burden for Proving Mental Retardation [feedly]

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    Shared via feedly // published on Death Penalty Information Center // visit site SUPREME COURT: High Court ...
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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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