Computerized Interpretation

Frequently Asked Questions about Actuarial Test Interpretation and Computer-based Personality Assessment

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1. What is actuarial interpretation?

Paul Meehl (1954) argued that the actuarial/statistical predictions (that is the use of objective facts or formulae) were more valid than predictions based on subjective or clinical decisions and subsequent research has supported this viewactuarial decisions are more accurate than subjective approaches.

Meehl, P. E. (1954). Clinical versus statistical prediction: A theoretical analysis and a review of the evidence. Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press.

2. What is computer based interpretation?

Over the past fifty years, computers have become an important method for processing test results in psychological assessment. Initially the were limited to scoring, however, in more recent decades computer-based test administration and interpretation has grown substantially in their scope and popularity. Computers can provide an objective, reliable, and cost-efficient way to administer, score, and interpret psychological tests.

3. What are important highlights in computer based test interpretation?

Following are some Important Dates in computer-based test interpretation:

  • 1954: Meehl's article on clinical versus statistical prediction establishing the actuarial prediction approach in psychology (Meehl, 1954).
  • 1955: Empirical validation of code types (Halbower, 1955).
  • 1962: Development of the first computer interpretation system at the Mayo Clinic by John Pearson and Wendell Swenson, ( Pearson, Swenson, et al., 1965; Rome, Swenson, et al., 1962)
  • 1963: Marks & Seeman's actuarial prediction providing an interpretive cookbook for MMPI codes with outpatients (MMPI cookbook) (Marks & Seemen, 1963).
  • 1965: Gilberstadt & Duker (MMPI cookbook) for inpatients. (Gilberstadt & Duker, 1965).
  • 1966: Strength of actuarial methods in psychological assessment (Sines, 1966)
  • 1967: Development of the first Narrative MMPI interpretive program with Roche Laboratories (Fowler, 1967)
  • 1982: Minnesota Report published by National Computer Systems.

References:

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  • Pearson, J. S., Swenson, W. M., Rome, H. P., Mataya, P., & Brannick, T. L. (1965). Development of a computer system for scoring and interpreting the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in a medical setting. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 126, 682692.
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  • Sines, J. O. (1966). Actuarial methods as appropriate strategy for the validation of diagnostic tests Psychological Review, 71, 517-523.

4. Is there an established research literature on computer based test interpretation?

Listed below are References for the use of computers in psychological personality assessment.

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