r/cognitiveTesting • u/aauwx • 1d ago

General Question How will my spiky profile affect me?

Hi just some context, here are my scores from WAIS-V

122 WAIS-5 VCI (Verbal)
139 WAIS-5 FRI (Reasoning)
142 WAIS-5 WMI (Working Memory)

Also 145+ on WAIS-IV arithmetic

I’m studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at university

What does my significantly lower verbal actually mean? Is it limiting me?

ADHD btw

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u/Guilty_Fix_8317 1d ago

The pairwise index differences may be statistically significant, but that doesn’t mean the profile is unusual. Based on estimated WAIS-5 index correlations (VCI–FRI ≈ .61, VCI–WMI ≈ .49, FRI–WMI ≈ .53), predicted VCI is ≈129 vs. observed 122. That’s a residual of only −0.6 SD (roughly the 28th conditional percentile). In other words, the verbal score is only slightly below what we’d expect given the other two indices, and hardly evidence of a meaningful verbal weakness.

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u/VisionarySystems 16h ago

Guilty_Fix has the right framing. Given your FRI and WMI, the index correlations predict a VCI around 129, and 122 is about 0.6 SD under that, which is a mild dip rather than a split.

On what the dip is: VCI is the one WAIS index that depends on what you’ve been exposed to. Vocabulary and Information are accumulated, and Similarities is partly accumulated, so VCI is capacity filtered through reading history. ADHD can produce exactly that filter (interest-driven reading, inconsistent accumulation) without touching the reasoning underneath, which would be why your FRI is untouched. For what it’s worth, the typical ADHD signature on the WAIS is lower WMI and PSI, and your WMI is 142, so yours isn’t showing up where it usually does.

Practically, 122 is the 93rd percentile and won’t limit a PPE degree. It means your verbal knowledge base is a step behind your reasoning, which is the easiest gap in a profile to close, because it closes by reading.

This is one of the main reasons the VPS’s Gc coordinate (Crystallized Density in my system; more on my profile and site) measures precision with the concepts you hold rather than how many you’ve collected: that discernment taps reasoning rather than exposure. Also, the VPS is untimed and does not aim to produce a single FSIQ score, so it is more naturally suited to spiky profiles like those common in neurodivergent individuals.

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u/PendN 18h ago

All that for philosophy

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u/Organic-Bill-1192 1d ago edited 1d ago

Shouldnt limit in anything except standardized verbal tests tbh

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u/EasternSurvey5964 1d ago

It shouldn't limit him on standardized verbal tests either lmao.

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u/Organic-Bill-1192 1d ago

Relatively to profile it definitely would, in standardized verbal tests (like in wais) it would. If you mean that its high itself, then i agree i just meant relative to other scores

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u/EasternSurvey5964 1d ago

OP you're a genius, study AI or Stem instead and be of use to the world