Paul Meehl's Review of the Strengths and Weaknesses of Clinical

question 44

Multiple Choice

Paul Meehl's review of the strengths and weaknesses of clinical and statistically-based assessment for diagnosing adults concluded that

• A) purely clinical approaches to testing hypotheses were typically superior to purely statistical approaches.
• B) purely clinical approaches to testing hypotheses were typically inferior to purely statistical approaches.
• C) a clinical approach to hypothesis generation and a statistical approach to hypothesis testing yields the most accurate results.
• D) a statistical approach to hypothesis generation and a clinical approach to hypothesis testing yields the most accurate results.

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