Validity of the Hunt-Minnesota Test for Organic Brain Damage

Abstract

"1. When the Hunt-Minnesota Test for Organic Damage was applied to 64 presumably normal employees of the Norwich State Hospital, 55 per cent had T scores indicating organic pathology. 2. The discrepancy between our results and Hunt's original validation results could not be explained by the fact that our data included cases with very high vocabularies and cases given only the short form of the test. 3. Since the test produces so many 'false positives,' its validity for diagnosing organic brain damage must be seriously questioned." (See also 18: 167, 2808.) (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)