Concurrent validity good, assessed by associations between agency and self-reports, with coefficients ranging from 0.84 to 0.92.
The reproducibility for all of the MSPSS scales was very good, assessed with both intraclass correlations and Lin's concordance correlation coefficient.
Our results confirmed that a majority of PANSS items (63.33%; 19 out of 30 items) are either Very Good or Good at assessing the overall illness severity.
This first item response analysis of the PANSS supports its sound psychometric properties; most PANSS items were either very good or good at assessing overall severity of illness.
But psychologists have found that most of us just aren't that good at assessing risk.
Furthermore, the global tolerability of the treatment (bad, satisfactory, good, very good) was assessed by the investigators at the last study visit.
"People are not like computers, which are really good at assessing the probability of things happening.
They have done a good job assessing and conveying the problem.
"Our staff have to be very good at assessing the question behind the question," Ms. Kantor said.
"What Jane Austen realised is that people are extremely good at assessing where they are in the mating market and pitch their demands accordingly," Professor Dunbar said.
"You need information based on life stage, job and a cluster and bundle of amenities, such as schools, health care, culture," Professor Florida said, and Mr. Sperling "tends to be good at assessing most, if not all, of that".
