Ken R. Vincent

Forty-eight patients with Menière's disease underwent psychological assessment with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and Diagnostic Inventory of Personality and Symptoms. Using the presence or absence of recurrent vertigo or chronic dysequilibrium as the differentiating feature, the results of two groups were compared. A clinical diagnosis of depression (axis I) was evident in 80% of the patients with active vestibular symptoms examined by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and 70% by the Diagnostic Inventory of Personality and Symptoms compared with 32% (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) and 39% (Diagnostic Inventory of Personality and Symptoms) in the inactive group. The data support the addition of depression to the clinical picture of active Menière's disease.

Data are presented on racial differences from the norms of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, the recent renorming of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised, the Stanford-Binet IV, and Raven's Progressive Matrices. The premise of the present article is that, while the one standard deviation IQ difference between Black and White adults has remained constant, IQ differences between Black and White children are declining. These data are discussed in the context of previous studies on possible racial bias of IQ tests, as well as marked changes in educational and economic opportunities that have occurred in the United States in the decades since Jensen's (1969) article.

Diagnostic hit rates for the Diagnostic Inventory of Personality and Symptoms (DIPS) were compared to diagnosis by psychiatrists of the same patients (N = 60). Three methods were employed to determine the DIPS hit rates. The Probability Scale employing Bayesian concepts and base rates correctly classified 70% of the patients and was more accurate by far than the other two methods.