Alessandro Quartiroli, Christopher R D Wagstaff
Practitioners in search of an identity: A Delphi study of sport psychology professional identity
Psychology of sport and exercise
clinical practice psychologists frequently participate making vital decisions concerning classification treatment prognosis disposition individuals attempts increase number correct classifications predictions psychologists developed applied many psychometric devices patterns test responses well cutting scores scales indices sign lists since diagnostic prognostic statements often made high degree accuracy purely basis actuarial experience tables referred hereinafter base rates psychometric device efficient must make possible greater number correct decisions could made terms base rates alone efficiency great majority psychometric devices reported clinical psychology literature difficult impossible evaluate following reasons base rates virtually never reported therefore difficult determine whether given device results greater number correct decisions would possible solely basis rates previous experience 1 neuropsychiatric service va hospital minneapolis minnesota divisions psychiatry clinical psychology university minnesota medical school senior author carried part work connection appointment minnesota center philosophy science