Could we see a link to his own lawyers claiming he was trying to flunk the test? I'm not doubting you; I just haven't seen such reports subjected to critical analysis.
Jessie's IQ was most certainly NOT in the "normal" range. He is at the bottom of the "borderline deficiency" category and closer to "feeble-minded" than normal. Put another way, Jessie ranks in the lowest 3% of the population in terms of intelligence.
http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/IQBasics.aspx
It wasn't his lawyers, it was an expert called by the defense. The PhD who gave him an IQ test. The test he scored the lowest on. He also testified that Jessie's performance IQ was low average and average on 2 tests. Feeble minded is not a a classification that is given anymore, I think they stopped using that scale many years ago.
http://www.callahan.8k.com/wm3/wwilkins2.html
DAVIS: And in that particular test, what was the performance IQ?
WILKINS: 75? Let meyes.
DAVIS: Now, you had in your file some past tests that had been conducted on Jessie to determine IQ, did you not?
WILKINS: Yes I did.
DAVIS: Ok. And in 89 did you have a test, an IQ test that was performed on him to determine what his functioning was at that point?
WILKINS: Uh, let meyes I did. I need to find the records to find exactly what
DAVIS: Sure, Doctor, go ahead.
WILKINS: I cant remember (unintelligible). Yes, Im sorry. Ok, yes.
DAVIS: Ok, and what was that performance IQ in 1989?
WILKINS: 1989, uh, Im sorry, its not in this report. Ill have to dig out all the old evidence, I thought it was in this report and its not.
DAVIS: Sure, I understand.
WILKINS: In, uh, which year are we talking about now?
DAVIS: 1989.
WILKINS: 1989 we had a performance of 84 and a verbal of 68 and a full-scale of 74.
DAVIS: Ok, and in 1992 there was alsoprior to the time you did your examination there was another IQ test, correct?
WILKINS: Yes.
DAVIS: What was his performance IQ at that time?
WILKINS: 88.
DAVIS: Ok, and what was his full-scale IQ at that time?
WILKINS: 73.
DAVIS:
Ok, so the two past IQ examinations that had been performed on him immediately prior to the one that you did indicated that his performance level was in the average range, is that correct?
WILKINS:
Uh, low average, yes. The first placed low average, the second one average, yes.
DAVIS: Ok, well am I correct in understanding that anything above 80 is in the average?
WILKINS: That depends on the criteria you want to go by. Typically itsSocial Security uses 80 above, other places use 84, so yea.
DAVIS:
So, by most criteria 84 and 88 would be in the average range?
WILKINS:
Yes.
DAVIS: Ok. And when we talk about performance IQ, describe what that is, what that involves.
WILKINS: Those entail, problem solving, conceptualization tasks, thinking tasks, theyre non-verbal. Example is putting together puzzles. Being able toI show you a pattern of blocks and you have to build designs that match the pattern of blocks. Its conceptualization in a non-verbal form, problem solving in a non-verbal form.
DAVIS: And in regard to that he rates about average, right?
WILKINS: On those two testings, yes.
DAVIS: Now the MMPI-2, that was another test that you conducted on him, is that correct?
WILKINS: Yes.
DAVIS: Now I dont want to get too complicated cause I dont understand all this stuff, but I notice down here you said, lets see, you said he had a highor you said a mild elevation in the F scale.
WILKINS: Yes.
DAVIS: Ok. Now Doctor its true that what you actually found was a T value in that F scale of 83.
WILKINS: Yes.
DAVIS: Now are you telling me that thats a mild elevation?
WILKINS: Its an elevation above normal levels.
DAVIS: Well dont they rank the elevationsas far as the T scale is concerned isnt that something thats actually ranked in terms of low range, middle range, moderately high range and very high range?
WILKINS: Yes. That may have been a mistake then. I may well have mispronounced what it was supposed to be.
DAVIS:
This is a text regardingMMPI Handbook. Show me here what an 82 to 88 T score on the F scale indicates to you in that book.
WILKINS:
Uh, very high.
DAVIS: Very high?
WILKINS: Yes. This would not be quite the same because this is for the MMPI rather than the MMPI-2, which changed critera, but it would still be in the high range.
DAVIS:
So when you put in here that that was a mild elevation, that would not be accurate would it?
WILKINS:
No. It would not be. No.
DAVIS:
And then from that statement that it was a mild elevation you interpreted that that could show malingering, right?
WILKINS:
Yes.
DAVIS:
And malingering means what, Doctor?
WILKINS:
It means, uh, making up stuff. Trying to present yourself as being ill when youre not for some particular gain.