PSY 344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Impulsivity, Campus Police, Personality Disorder
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Cutting scores: clinical vs statistical predictions of dangerousness. Two different types of predictions of dangerousness. Clinical- subjective judgments made by experienced decision makers. Individual meets person, talks to person, makes assessment of person. Statistical predictions made on pre-identified relevant characteristics. Assessed then evaluated using a rule that has been pre-determined. Know ahead of time the characteristics interested in and how they are weighed in the formula. All sorts of real life areas these statistical predictions are made. Ex: insurance weights accidents, sex, type of car etc. Some questions have to do with you specifically, some have to do with car, some about neighborhood. Regardless of who you are, these characteristics will be weighted uniformly. Protects against illegal/ unacceptable types of criteria: statistical predictors. Static predictors- about the individual/ person and about their past behaviors. E(cid:454): ge(cid:374)der, past violent behavior, race, social-economic status, employment stability, pattern of alcohol/ drug abuse, history of personality disorders.
