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Dr. Cecil Reynolds is here to have in-depth discussion on pediatric performance validity testing. You may recognize Cecil’s name from his research or the 50 assessment measures that he has developed or co-developed over the last few decades. This episode is a nice complement to my prior interview with Dr. David Baker from a few months ago. Today, we dive a little deeper into the research on pediatric and practice with pediatric PVT’s. These are a few areas that we discuss:

• The importance of base rates of PVT failure
• Why we shouldn’t downward-extend adult PVT’s for kids
• How many PVT’s do we need to “sprinkle in” throughout our testing session(s)?
• Freestanding vs. embedded effort tests

Cool Things Mentioned

• TTP episode with Dr. Stephanie Nelson on Being Less Wrong
• David Faust’s work on cognitive biases and decision-making
• The Pediatric Performance Validity Test Suite 

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Dr. Reynolds is an Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology, Professor of Neuroscience, and a Distinguished Research Scholar at Texas A&M University. He is the author of more than 45 commercially published psychological tests including the BASC-3, RIAS-2, TOMAL-2, and the PdPVTS. Last fall, he was named in the top half of Stanford’s list of the top 2% of scientists in all fields worldwide. He currently writes and practices Forensic Neuroscience in Austin, Texas.

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