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Vol. 74, No. 9, September 1994, pp. 810-811
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Christopher Maher and Roger Adams

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

We would like to thank Dr Shields for taking the time to comment on our paper and raising some interesting research issues. Before responding to these issues, we would like to make clear our view on the role of reliability studies that conclude that a measure is unreliable. We do not see such studies as the end of the story for the measurement of the class tested, but rather as the beginning of a process that will involve researchers and clinicians in developing measurement protocols that are reliable. Clinicians involved in reliability studies who are willing to allow their methods to be scrutinized are a valuable commodity and deserving of our respect, for they run the risk of being confronted with a low reliability index on a measurement technique they are using....


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