Sex-of-Rater Bias in Clinical Diagnosis of Organic Brain Damage Using the Bender-Gestalt and Memory-for-Designs Tests

Abstract

Although there are many reported sex differences in cognitive style, there has been no examination of the sex of the rater as a possible source of error in the clinical diagnosis of organic brain damage. In the present study, 4 male and 4 female Ph.D. clinical psychologists (Raters) judged the unidentified Bender-Gestalt and Memory-for-Designs protocols of 15 male and 15 female neuropsychiatric patient- Ss. Judgments of both male and female Raters correlated highly with objective scoring of the same protocols. However, the females found significantly more organicity than the males. The relative agreements of ratings of both tests with a medical criterion of organicity are discussed in terms of the two currently opposing schools of thought.

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