title: Reply to Sanchez Escobedo and Hollingworth: Why the Mexican Norms for the WAIS-III continue to be inadequate.
abstract: The discussion in Drs. Sanchez Escobedo and Hollingworth's paper independently confirms virtually all our observations regarding the psychometric and interpretive deficiencies of the Mexican norms for very high-stakes decisions, such as that involved in an Atkins hearing. Test publishers have an ethical obligation to caution potential users against the premature use of a developing assessment that does not yet meet the needed precision and evidence of validity required for very high-stakes decisions.
authors.affiliation: Educational Psychology Program, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA. hoisuen@psu.edu
authors.forename: Hoi K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Suen
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Greenspan
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008800:Mexico; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014888:Wechsler Scales / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*