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© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Abstract

The recent release of the WAIS-5, a decade and a half after its predecessor, the WAIS-IV, raises immediate questions about the Flynn effect (FE). Does the traditional FE of points per decade in the U.S. for children and adults, identified for the Full Scale IQs of all Wechsler scales and for other global IQ scores as well, persist into the 2020s? The WAIS-5 Technical and Interpretive Manual provides two counterbalanced validity studies that address the Flynn effect directly—N = 186 adolescents and adults (16–90 years, mean age = 47.8) tested on the WAIS-IV and WAIS-5; and N = 98 16-year-olds tested on the WISC-V and WAIS-5. The FE is incorporated into the diagnostic criteria for intellectual disabilities by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), by DSM-5-TR, and in capital punishment cases. The unexpected result of the two counterbalanced studies was a reduction in the Flynn effect from the expected value of 3 IQ points to 1.2 points. These findings raise interesting questions regarding whether the three point adjustment to FSIQs should be continued for intellectual disability diagnosis and whether the federal courts should rethink its guidelines for capital punishment cases and other instances of high stakes decision-making. Limitations include a lack of generalization to children, the impact of the practice effects, and a small sample size.

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Title
Wait, Where’s the Flynn Effect on the WAIS-5?
Author
Winter, Emily L 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Trudel, Sierra M 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Kaufman, Alan S 3 

 School of Health Sciences, Touro University, 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036, USA 
 Department of Psychology, Marist College, 3399 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, USA; [email protected] 
 Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, Charles B. Gentry Building, 249 Glenbrook Road U-3064, Storrs, CT 06269, USA; [email protected] 
First page
118
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20793200
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3133042318
Copyright
© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.