Hamm v. Smith · ¶55
The principal dissent also claims that the District Court's holistic approach “contravened psychology” and “statistics.” Post, at 316. The District Court's analysis, however, was entirely consistent with “the medical community's diagnostic framework.” Hall, 572 U. S., at 721. When a person has multiple IQ scores, the APA Handbook explains that “clinicians may benefit from evaluating the 95% confidence intervals for each score and collectively interpreting the complete set of scores using clinical judgment.” R. Floyd, R. Farmer, W. Schneider, & K. McGrew, Theories and Measurement of Intelligence, in 1 APA Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 415 (L. Glidden ed. 2021). The District Court here evaluated Smith's scores in light of their confidence intervals and took into account the clinical judgment of the experts who each interpreted those scores. See Brief for American…Read in context ›
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