Taylor & Richards (1991) investigated the hypothesis that nonverbal subscales of IQ tests should be less culturally-biased than verbal subtests and found

A) African American children scored higher on the verbal than the nonverbal subscales of the WISC-R.
B) African American children scored lower than white children on the verbal subscale of the WISC-R.
C) no differences between African American and white children on the verbal subscale of the WISC-R.
D) African American children scored higher than white children on the nonverbal subscale of the WISC-R.

A) African American children scored higher on the verbal than the nonverbal subscales of the WISC-R.

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