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[quote=SAM2][quote=Anonymous]If the OLSAT is given by people employed by the NY school system and the WPPSI is given by private psychologists paid by the parents of the child, um, well, maybe there's a bit of a difference in motivation to find high scores.[/quote]
I'm generally am just as cynical as you, so I tend to like such assessments of hidden incentives.  But I'm not sure it makes sense here ....  What motivation would a private psych have to boost the WPPSI scores?  The psych is getting paid the same amount for the test regardless.  I suppose being known as an "easy grader" might create some repeat business, but not much since most families have only 2-3 kids at most.  And if the psych does skew all kids' results to give higher-than-warranted scores to everyone, then she runs the risk of (1) losing the schools' referral business, since her scores become worthless to the schools, and (2) potentially risking her license.  I seem to recall some child psychologist actually posting on DCUM several months ago, saying that the WPPSI and similar tests really are designed to prevent psychologists from skewing with the results.[/quote]

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