Who wouldn’t want to cooperate with a psychologist? They are trained in being nice people.
“Who wouldn’t want to cooperate with a psychologist?”
Umm, children and teenagers?
Also, umm, people having social and emotional difficulties…
I believe @JustOneDad’s post was tongue in cheek.
But they are nice people 
I am a School Psychologist that has given the WISC thousands of times in the past 30 years. Unless the OP had suffered some type of traumatic brain injury before testing, I would seriously question the validity of the test results. I think the largest verbal / nonverbal discrepancy that I’ve ever tested is 44 points and the OP’s is 53 points, with a 55 nonverbal IQ? I would be very interested to know what the OP’s story is as far as education, employment, etc.
As you know, csdad, some of those subtest scaled scores are arrived at by getting a score of zero on the subtest. Wonder if the performance subtests were even administered?
Things don’t add up here. If administered in 2001 it would have had to have been the WISC-III, since IV was not released until 2003. However, there is no scores given for Picture Arrangement & Object Assembly, which were core Performance Subtests. Picture Concepts score is given, but that was not a Subtest on the WISC-III, but is a core subtest of WISC-IV. As someone else mentioned, could have been part of the standardization sample (I tested some for psych corp at that time), but would not have had scores available since you only reported raw scores to psych corp.
This is silly. These tests are a snapshot in time and are highly dependent on many factors, including the experience of the tester, the behavior of the child, illness, etc. I know from my own testing that I do, if a student does not cooperate and does not respond to an item, he does not get credit. This often leads to test results that are lower than expected. I am curious to know why, as an adult, this person cares?
Why do people research their genealogy? Why do they care who their ancestors were? After all, as an adult, it’s all water under the bridge.
Re: post # 27: See posts #9, 11 and 15
Ancestry is not the same type of snapshot in time and it is not highly dependent on a variety of factors. If a 13 year old student takes a standardized test and suddenly gets a headache, becomes hungry, has to use the bathroom etc, those results may not reflect the students true abilities. I am curious to know if this individual is having difficulty now, as an adult.
Ah, sounds like you are from the “It’s just a test; it doesn’t mean anything…” school of thought.
My experience is that people are looking for all sorts of reasons for why they are having everything from “difficulty” to a bad hair day.
No I do not feel like that at all- but I do feel like that sometimes ( if that makes sense). I work in a field that bases eligibility for services on standardized testing. I do believe, however, that taking a test on a Tuesday morning after getting a good nights rest, eating breakfast, being in a good mood, feeling well, and having an experienced tester, may get more accurate results ( especially for a child who may not care about results) than taking the test on a Friday afternoon when you may be tired, have a headache, etc. I always tell parents that scores are a snapshot in time, and they are. As I stated, I am curious to know how this adult is functioning now. What has happened between the ages of 13 and 27?
My son took 3 WISCs over the course of 5 years. On the first and the third his scores were consistent, with his FSIQ only 3 points apart. On the second his score mysteriously came out almost 30 points lower. Some of it was because he was topping out on some of the measures, but I think he also didn’t click with the second psychologist. She was a reputable neuropsychologist who had come highly recommended but clearly something was off. My guess was that because she was a little more aloof than the other two and he was afraid to make guesses.
I have tested numerous kids 3 different times from ages of 8 to 18, and nearly every single time the Full Scale IQ is + or - approx. 3 points. If not, it typically was due to the change-over from WISC- III to WISC - IV and the differing Subtests. Of course above points of different administrators is valid. The School Psychologist at the level preceding mine, typically got lower results than I did (especially on one particular subtest, which made me question if she was administering it correctly). I really love the WISC & feel like it gives me loads of information regarding learning styles, possible physiological basis’ for problems with executive functioning, learning disabilities, learning potential, ramifications for advisement on career choice, advisement of study strategies, etc.
Post 27 is exactly accurate.
But who cares, honestly, whether it was the III or the IV?
If there is any shred of truth, and you know that this is the Internet so people can hide or change details for privacy reasons (one teenager posted “I can’t list the state I am from, because some of my friends are on CC”), then the only thing is, that if the OP is concerned, they should get retested.
If there are any job or medical issues, the OP may be able to get testing through the state division of vocational rehabilitation. Some health insurances might cover the testing as well.
It matters because it doesn’t add up. The present info from the OP is not believable, and if the OP has the protocol and is reading from the score sheet, then the date of administration and age at time of administration would be right there on the first page. If he/she is now 27 and took the version with the subtests as described, then the age is off, because he/she wasnt 13 in 2003, when the test was released. And most don’t get it and administer it the minute it is released. When it arrives, they usually have to practice with it to get familiar with the changes, so administration errors are minimized. Maybe the OP was the kid of a psychologist who practiced the new version on him. I was such a guinea pig when my family member was learning to administer an IQ test. Being a bit of a wiseguy HS’er at the time, I purposely gave wrong answers just to mess with them (though I did then give the correct answer). OK-- for those in the field, think back, very far back, to the old, old WAIS vocabulary subtest. The words edifice and encumber were vocab words. I said edifice was a complex where you loved your mother and encumber was a green vegetable you put in your salad :)) OK, this is only funny to a target audience… And boy was I good at digit span forwards and backwards back then…
The OP asked a question with no explanation as to why they were asking, and has not returned. Until then, with further explanation, e should all move on.
All those tests are real brain ticklers. What’s the one where they show you a panel of pictures and you have to narrate what’s happening in them?