Similarly, adjustment to diagnosis was screened by asking whether the child or any family members were "having a difficult time" with the diagnosis, and if so, whether this difficulty was having a "significant impact".
Theism, by contrast, escapes this difficulty: if we are made in the image of God, the ultimate knower, then divine providence can be counted on to have supplied us with reliable cognitive faculties.
Even if we would overcome this difficulty we arrive at a problem of choosing an appropriate Banach space on which ℋ would be acting.
(It's not just climate science that has this difficulty; if you want to study the evolution of galaxies, it's easier to write computer code than to create 100 billion stars).
Future work may circumvent this difficulty if the recent emergence of transdiagnostic approaches to treating anxiety disorders (Norton and Philipp 2008) generates interventions that are effective across the anxiety spectrum.
Frequency had to be recorded only if the subject had this difficulty on a regular basis over the past six months, being coded as follows: less often than once a month = 1; about 1-2 times a month = 2; about 1-2 times a week = 3; about 3-4 times a week = 4; every day or nearly every day = 5.
Nevertheless, if individuals perceived that this difficulty to affected them only for a part of this 6-month period, then the duration of this event was recorded, coding the responses as follows: for 5 days or less = 1; for more than 5 days, up to a month = 2; for more than 1, up to 2 months = 3; for more than 2, up to 3 months = 4; for more than 3 months = 5.
Even if this basic difficulty is acknowledged, the validity of mappings may remain an issue due to questionable data sources, statistical and other methodological problems, and their visual representation.
This difficulty vanishes if we suppose that the ground for duty is not the objective nature of the situation, but the way the agent supposes things to be.
Martha Minow (1998) provides a fascinating example to illuminate this difficulty: what if we find out that East German guards, facing prosecution for shooting those who tried to leave for the west, were especially screened for obedience?
