Mistaken first impressions: A response [Letter]

Lewis, Michael Bevan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5735-5318 and Ellis, Hadyn D. 2000. Mistaken first impressions: A response [Letter]. International Journal of Clinical Practice 54 (2) , pp. 126-127.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	1368-5031
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Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 09:11
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/35537

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