Thursday, November 22, 2018

Happy Turkey day from the blogmaster

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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Shriver op-ed on Moore v Texas continuing saga with SCOTUS

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The LA Times published an excellent op-ed that explains, in simple understandable language, the issues and reasoning behind the recent lega...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

The use of the Woodcock-Johnson Fourth Edition (WJ IV) GIA Cognitive IQ score in intellectual disability (ID) determination

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The WJ IV Cognitive GIA in iintellectual disability (ID) assessment from Kevin McGrew
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Atkins decisions: More on Moore v TX (2018). ABA files brief on behalf of Moore - UPDATED 11-20-18 to include APA amicus brief

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Interesting turn of events re: Moore v. Texas. ABA story here . The AG’s motion can be found here . The ABA amicus brief can ...
Friday, November 9, 2018

Law Review Article: Intellectual Disability in Capital Cases: Adjusting State Statutes After Moore v. Texas

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Another new Atkins related law review article available here . ABSTRACT In Atkins v. Virginia (2002), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled t...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Research Byte: Flynn Effect in Kuwait, 1985-1998

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This study will be added to the Flynn Effect Archive Project the next time it is update. https://iqmrdeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2017/09/flynn...

Law Review Article: Evaluating Intellectual Disability: Clinical Assessments in Atkins Cases (Ellis et al., 2018)

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This new law review article is, IMHO, the best overview article regarding the history of ID, the legal issues in Atkins cases, and good di...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Neurohype and the Law: A Cautionary Tale by Stephen Morse :: SSRN

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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3245373
Saturday, October 20, 2018

Law Review Article: Comment post-Moore: Call for national standard for ID def in capital cases

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Article can be found here . CONCLUSION The Supreme Court's decision in Moore served as little more than a lackluster attempt to provide ...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Death penalty switched to life in prison for Alabama man who killed 4 children | AL.com

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https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/10/death_penalty_sentence_reduced.html
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Breaking death penalty news: State of Washington Supreme Court rules death penalty unconstitutional

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Opinion is here . - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Supreme Court could limit execution of people with dementia

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Supreme Court could limit execution of people with dementia https://apnews.com/13565de9a786423b90038f271d63d236 Sent from Flipboard
Saturday, September 29, 2018

Atkins court decisions: Lane v Alabama (2028) and Wright v Florida (2018)

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Two recent Atkins court decisions. Lane v Alabama (2018) Wright v Florida (2018) As a reminder, when I first started this blog I...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Nature, Nurture, and Human Autonomy with James Flynn - Scott Barry Kaufman

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Nature, Nurture, and Human Autonomy with James Flynn - Scott Barry Kaufman https://scottbarrykaufman.com/podcast/nature-nurture-and-human-au...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Beyond IQ: Mining the “no-mans-land” between Intelligence and IQ: Journal of Intelligence special issue

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I am pleased to see the Journal of Intelligence   addressing the integration of non-cognitive variables (personality; self-beliefs; motivati...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Intellectual disability in capital (Atkins) cases: Adjusting state statutes after Moore v Texas

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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN CAPITAL CASES: ADJUSTING STATE STATUTES AFTER MOORE V. TEXAS. Source: Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Flynn Effect Reference Project has been updated 07-31-18

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The Flynn Effect Reference Project document has just been updated.  It now includes 302 references.  Access can be found at this prior p...
Sunday, July 29, 2018

How to start training applied psychometrician’s early

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Monday, July 16, 2018

What is an applied psychometrician?

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I wear a number of hats within the broad filed of educational psychology.  One is that of an applied psychometrician.  Whenever anyone asks ...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Great psychometric resource: The Wiley Handbook of Psychometric Testing

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I just received my two volume set of this excellent resource on psychometric testing.  There are not many good books that cover such a bro...

National Academies Press: Neuroforensics: Exploring the legal implications of emerging technologies

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  This new publication is now available from the National Academies Press.

Court decision: Moore v Texas (2018) after SCOTUS vacated decison based on Briseno AB standards

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I'm a bit behind in posting information regarding recent Atkins -related court decisions. Despite SCOTUS recently vacating Moore v...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

"Intellectual Disability, The Death Penalty, and Jurors"

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---- "Intellectual Disability, The Death Penalty, and Jurors" // Sentencing Law and Policy The title of...
Sunday, July 8, 2018

Practice or retest effects in measures of working memory capacity (Gwm): A meta-analysis

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Retest effects in working memory capacity tests: A meta-analysis Jana Scharfen, Katrin Jansen, Heinz Holling. Article link © Psychonomic So...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the 1970s— Scandinavian countries

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This reverse Flynn effect has been found primarily in Scandinavian countries and not the US.   Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the...
Saturday, June 2, 2018

Can emotional intelligence (Gei) be trained: A meta-analysis

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Can emotional intelligence be trained? A meta-analysis Please cite this article as: Mattingly, V., Human Resource Management Review (2018), ...

Evidence of a Flynn Effect in Children's Human Figure Drawings (1902-1968).

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Evidence of a Flynn Effect in Children's Human Figure Drawings (1902-1968). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29799338 Sent from Flipb...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

The Relation between Intelligence and Adaptive Behavior: A Meta-Analysis 

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Very important meta-analysis of AB IQ relation. Primary finding on target with prior informal synthesis by McGrew (2015) The Relation betw...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

NEUROSCIENCE & SOCIETY: Ethics, Law, and Technology Confrence - Neuroethics & Law Blog

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NEUROSCIENCE & SOCIETY: Ethics, Law, and Technology Confrence - Neuroethics & Law Blog http://kolber.typepad.com/ethics_law_blog/201...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Stability of intelligence from infancy through adolescence

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Stability of intelligence from infancy through adolescence: An autoregressive latent variable model ( article link ) Huihui Yua, D. Betsy ...