Now, I don't have a complete normative theory of what factors people should base their voting decisions on, but I'm pretty sure there's little rational benefit to being influenced by this kind of self-reinforcing crowd dynamic.
A complete normative theory of criminal law must include an account of the criminal process, and any such account must tackle the problem of plea-bargaining, which seems inconsistent with the idea that criminal liability should be imposed only when the truth and justice of the criminal charge have been publicly tested in a criminal trial (see Lippke 2011).
For the CHQ and SDQ complete normative datasets were available for comparison from the Health of Young Victorians Survey (HOYVS) and the Victorian Child Health and Wellbeing survey (VCHWS) respectively [ 39, 40].
The MOSS scale has been validated in large samples 18, 19 and a comparison of this sample with normative scores was completed previously.
Indeed, such findings were highlighted by the results of a recent pan-European survey, in which parents of children (8 18 years) with ADHD and without ADHD (normative population sample) completed an on-line questionnaire about the impact of their child's ADHD on everyday activities, general behaviour and family relationships [ 19].
Groups 1 and 2 completed identical assessments, the sole difference between them being that group 1 received normative and other feedback as usual, whereas group 2 did not.
Convergent validity was assessed by calculating correlations between the parent completed SDQ and the parent completed PSQ, Discriminant validity was assessed by comparing 47 subjects from the normative sample with 47 age and gender matched ADHD outpatients using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves employing area under the curve (AUC) as an index of discriminant ability.
The study participants completed a quality of life survey, SF-36, which also were compared with the Swedish SF-36 national normative database.
As such, this questionnaire was completed by a sample of parents with children with ADHD and a general population sample of parents with children without ADHD (normative population).
The mean score for a normative sample of females completing the PSS questionnaire is 13.7 ± 6.6 (Cohen and Williamson, 1998).
