It Would Be Preferable to Use the Stanford-Binet Instead of an Intelligence

question 127

Multiple Choice

It would be preferable to use the Stanford-Binet instead of an intelligence test such as the California Test of Mental Maturity in which of the following scenarios?

• A) A researcher is interested in getting both verbal and nonverbal scores of intelligence from his sample.
• B) The researcher suspects two of the subjects in the sample may be slow learners and would like to exclude them from the study.
• C) A researcher wants intelligence measures for his sample of 100 high school students.
• D) The Binet would be preferable in all of these situations.

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