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10824370

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-6-12
pubmed:abstractText
In this journal, Cummins et al reported an experiment that examined clinicians' predictions of causes of death from subjects' pre-morbid photographs. They found that clinicians performed at chance. The validity of two of their other conclusions are challenged. First, that clinicians routinely form impressions of how a person will die from their appearance. Second, that certain health professionals use common judgements to form these impressions. These claims are found to be based upon non-falsifiable hypothesis and inappropriate statistics; hence, an experiment employing pictures of feet (or any arbitrary personal detail) would have led the authors to the same conclusions.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1368-5031
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
54
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
126-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-2-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Mistaken first impressions: a response.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comment