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  1. Job Corps statistics, fiscal year 1971.

  2. R.B. Ammons and C.H. Ammons, The Quick Test (QT): provisional manual.Psychological Reports, 1962, 111–161. (Monogr. Suppl. I–VII) The Job Corps screening manual states that “Job Corps is not geared to meet the needs of those who are unable to learn, and legislation requires that this judgment be made prior to enrollment.

  3. For a discussion of validity and other measurement concepts cited here, see: Anne Anastasi, Psychological Testing (3rd ed.). London: Macmillan, 1968.

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  4. Ammons and Ammons, 1962.

  5. Richard R. Abidin and Alfred V. Byrne, Quick Test validation study and examination of form equivalency. Psychological Reports, 1967,20,735–739.

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  6. See, for example: A.I. Carlisle, Quick Test performance by institutional retardates. Psychological Reports, 1965, 17, 489–490.

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  7. Nira R. Lavine, Validation of the Quick Test for intelligence screening of the elderly, Psychological Reports, 1971, 29, 167–172.

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  8. Martha T. Mednick, The validity of the Ammons Quick Test of Intelligence. Psychological Reports, 1969, 24, 388–390.

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  9. One may extend this argument to preclude the use of any intelligence test on a population that is not part of the dominant milieu that produced the test. Job Corps exists to help an alienated group participate in middle class society but rejects applicants on the basis of their failure of a test that measures, to an extent, middle-classness. Hence the dilemma in assessing the validity of any intelligence test in this context.

  10. Ammons and Ammons, 1962.

  11. Spurgeon Cole and Robert Williams, The Quick Test as an index of intellectual ability on a Negro admission ward. Psychological Reports, 1967, 20, 581–582.

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  12. It may be noted that Ammons and Ammons were not only white-middle-class oriented but male oriented also. The authors write in the Quick Test manual that “feminists will be glad to know that working women were not excluded [from the norm sample], even though their places in the occupational quotas were determined from their husbands' occupations.” Needless to say, the status of the adult males tested was not based on the occupations of their wives.

  13. That black English is a legitimate dialect with a structure all its own is well documented. See especially: J.L. Dillard,Black English, its history and usage in the United States. New York: Random House, 1972.

  14. J. Robert Staffieri, Performance of preschool children on the Quick Test. Psychological Reports, 1971, 29, 472.

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  15. Ammons and Ammons (1962) write that “If important decisions are to be made, based on Quick Test results, then two or three single forms should be given.” In addition, of the 30 studies I reviewed in which the Quick Test is actually administered, all but two use the total score on all three forms to determine IQ.

  16. U.S. Department of Labor, Manpower Administration,Job Corps screening and admissions manual. Washington: U.S. Department of Labor, 1972.

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Albin, R. Quickly! Give the corps a middle class answer. Urban Rev 6, 32–34 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02194015

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