Opinion ID: 3187215
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Heading: Affidavit of Dr. Herbert Eber

Text: Dr. Herbert Eber, a prison psychologist, averred that in 1992, Ledford scored an 86 on a modified Culture Fair Intelligence Test (“Culture Fair”). The Culture Fair was part of a test battery administered by non-psychologists to inmates in a large room in groups of 30 or more inmates at a time. According to Dr. Eber, the Culture Fair performed on Ledford was not designed to measure his individual IQ, but rather to “assess [his] general aptitude . . . so as to more appropriately place him in a prison program.” Dr. Eber testified that the 1992 Culture Fair did not measure reading skills, was untimed, and was not properly normed, meaning “the scores obtained . . . ha[d] absolutely no validity in determining general intellectual functioning” and were “not valid for the purpose of diagnosing or ruling out mental retardation.”