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On Failing to Test a Theory of Mental Pathology
Author(s) -
HOPE K.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1972.tb00800.x
Subject(s) - sign (mathematics) , test (biology) , psychology , clinical psychology , cognitive psychology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , paleontology , biology
In their recent discussion of the Symptom‐Sign Inventory (SSI), Gordon & Gregson (1970) deduce some empirical hypotheses from the theory advanced by Foulds (1965) and test them on a small body of data which they have assembled. The purpose of this note is to show that some of their deductions from the theory are mistaken.