Judged prognosis: An attempt to apply a psychophysical approach to scale psychiatric opinion

Judged prognosis for functional psychosis disorder classifications: A prothetic continuum.

“…The psychiatrist judgment scale (based on the Case V of Thurstone's Law of Comparative Judgment) has been found to be markedly related to personality test dimensions (of patients) as measured by the MMPI and other psychometric indices (Stone,196S) and to empirically derived improvement, recovery, and length of hospitalization rates associated with such disorders (Stone, 1967). More recently, Fechnerian psychophysical constructs were used to describe interpretations of the psychiatric judgment-based prognosis scale (Stone, 1968).…”