Recommendation for test administration in litigation: never administer the category test to a blindfolded subject.
Fox (1994) purports to determine the appropriateness of the normative data for the Logical Memory subtest of the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised for individuals in litigation and suggests that "...many of these people would have been incorrectly diagnosed as having a neuropsychological problem that did not exist." His data do not support such a conclusion, but rather appear simply to demonstrate that patients in litigation concerning potentially painful orthopedic and/or emotional injuries can, as a group, perform slightly below average levels on memory tests.
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