Comparative judgements are independent and additional judgements increase reliability (Bramley et al., 1998; Pollitt, 2012a).
Bramley (2007) used the term psychological validity to describe the additional cognitive requirements to make valid and reliable judgements of complex performances, such as scripts, because of the amount of time taken to make the judgement.
An additional strength is that it is based on the judgements of nurses, doctors and relatives who were with the patient during the last week of life.
For the main statistical analysis, judgements of 'definitely' and 'probably' were combined; for correlations with the use of 'definite' judgements, see Additional File 1. Two separate booklets were assembled, Book 1 and Book 2, each containing 20 different pairs of doctors.
Consequently, attractiveness judgements are likely to reflect judgements of apparent health.
Unfortunately, the judgements of these two courts are hardly reconcilable.
Judgements of DMC were not made.
This study addressed an important methodological question: whether clinician judgements of paper cases, as conventionally employed in judgement analysis research, can be generalized to judgements in clinical situations.
Social judgement scheme analysis assigns different weightings to group member judgements according to their distance from the judgements of other group members.
More crucially, however, subitizing was even more severely impaired when the additional task required a judgement of high attentional load (a conjunction detection).
