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Clinical psychologist evaluates the dangers of race-based norms in cognitive testing – News-Medical.Net
A UCSF clinical psychologist has taken aim at the National Football League (NFL) for “race norming” black players diagnosed with dementia, a practice that is depriving…
A UCSF clinical psychologist has taken aim at the National Football League (NFL) for “race norming” black players diagnosed with dementia, a practice that is depriving them of the monetary awards allocated to former footballers with neurodegenerative disorders.
In her perspective that runs in JAMA Neurology on Dec. 21, 2020, Katherine Possin, Ph.D., of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, says the denial of compensation to Black players, whose cognitive scores had been adjusted to “correct” for the…
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