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8556440

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-2-23
pubmed:abstractText
One hundred sixty-one professionals and 97 undergraduates were asked to (a) prioritize 12 hypothetical CPS cases on the basis of sexual behaviors displayed by children, and (b) estimate the probability of abuse in a single case involving a child who had displayed sexual behavior and came from a population with a known base rate of abuse. When asked to prioritize the 12 cases as "high," "medium," or "low" on the basis of sexual behaviors, professionals were more accurate than students. However, when asked to estimate the probability of abuse in the single case, both professionals and students failed to incorporate base rate information into their decisions. As a result, both groups misestimated the probability of abuse under some circumstances. Professionals' performance on both judgment tasks was unrelated to level of experience with sexual abuse cases.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0145-2134
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1263-73
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Evaluation of children's sexual behaviors and incorporation of base rates in judgments of sexual abuse.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso 79968, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article