文献笔记｜Why I Do Not Attend Case Conferences

Meta Data

• 书籍：Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers
• 章节：Chapter 12 Why I Do Not Attend Case Conference
• 作者：P.E. Meehl
• 标签：思考方式
• 年份：1973

作者

保羅·埃弗雷特·梅爾（Paul Everett Meehl）是美國明尼蘇達大學的臨床心理學家，哈撒韋和攝政心理學教授，曾任美國心理學會主席。

想法

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摘要

The main reason I rarely show up at case conferences is easily stated: The intellectual level is so low that I find them boring, sometimes even offensive.

Part I: What’s wrong?

1. Buddy-buddy syndrome.
2. “All evidence is equally good.”
3. Reward everything – gold and garbage alike.
4. Tolerance of feeble inferences.
5. Failure to distinguish between an inclusion test and an exclusion test.
6. Failure to distinguish between mere consistency of a sign and differential weight of a sign.
7. Shift in the evidential standard, depending upon whose ox is being gored.
8. Ignorance (or repression) of statistical logic.
   1. Forgetting Bayes’ Theorem.
   2. Forgetting about unreliability when interpreting score changes or difference scores.
   3. Reliance upon inadequate behavior samples for trait attribution.
   4. Inadequate consideration of whether and when the (fact -> fact) linkage is stronger or weaker than the (multiple-fact -> diagnosis -> fact) linkage.
   5. Failing to understand probability logic as applied to the single case.
9. Inappropriate task specification.
10. Asking pointless questions.
11. Ambiguity of professional roles.
12. Some common fallacies.