Clifton had been experiencing a number of psychological issues, so he decided to go to a psychiatrist to see what was wrong. Dr. A told him he had major depressive disorder. He decided to seek a second opinion. Dr. B diagnosed him with generalized anxiety disorder. Wanting yet another opinion, he went to Dr. C, who told him he was obsessive-compulsive. This demonstrates poor ________

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Answer:

a. inter-rater reliability.

Explanation:

This question is incomplete. The given options for this question are:

a. inter-rater reliability.

b. descriptive validity.

c. concurrent validity.

d. test-retest reliability.

In psychology, the term inter-rater reliability refers to the extent to which two or more raters (or observers, coders, examiners) agree. In other words, it refers to the fact that a rater/specialist B confirms the diagnosis made by a rater/specialist A. If many raters agree on the diagnosis, then it has a high inter-rater reliability.

In this example, Clifton went to see 3 different psychiatrists and the 3 of them gave him three different diagnosis. Therefore, none of them agreed on the previous diagnosis and we can say that this demonstrates poor inter-rater reliability (since there were 3 different specialists)

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