Routine Psychological Testing of the Individual Is Not Valid

2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 1576-1593
Author(s):  
Cristiano Mauro Assis Gomes ◽  
Jhonys de Araujo ◽  
Elizabeth do Nascimento ◽  
Enio Galinkin Jelihovschi
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Testing ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Testing Practices ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Current Psychological ◽  
Common Application ◽  
Birkhoff's Theorem ◽  
Birkhoff’S Theorem

In this article, we present and argue our assertion that current routine psychological testing of individuals is not valid. To support our assertion, we review the concept of ergodicity, Birkhoff’s theorem, and Molenaar’s manifesto, which together support our contention that the direct transposition of population estimations for producing inferences about the individual is not valid. We argue that this practice of direct transposition is the root cause of why routine psychological testing of individual is not valid. We then provide an example of a common application of psychological testing of an individual, explaining why this practice is not valid. Finally, we discuss how the intraindividual (or within-person) approach provides some prospect for valid individual testing and also introduces new challenges. We hope that our questioning of current psychological testing practices motivates researchers to propose and study novel methodological propositions to address the issues raised by our assertion.

Root Cause Analyses of Suicides of Mental Health Clients

Crisis ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 316-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Gillies ◽  
David Chicop ◽  
Paul O'Halloran
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mental Health Clients ◽  
Imminent Risk

Abstract. Background: The ability to predict imminent risk of suicide is limited, particularly among mental health clients. Root cause analysis (RCA) can be used by health services to identify service-wide approaches to suicide prevention. Aims: To (a) develop a standardized taxonomy for RCAs; (b) to quantitate service-related factors associated with suicides; and (c) to identify service-related suicide prevention strategies. Method: The RCAs of all people who died by suicide within 1 week of contact with the mental health service over 5 years were thematically analyzed using a data collection tool. Results: Data were derived from RCAs of all 64 people who died by suicide between 2008 and 2012. Major themes were categorized as individual, situational, and care-related factors. The most common factor was that clients had recently denied suicidality. Reliance on carers, recent changes in medication, communication problems, and problems in follow-through were also commonly identified. Conclusion: Given the difficulty in predicting suicide in people whose expressions of suicidal ideation change so rapidly, services may consider the use of strategies aimed at improving the individual, stressor, support, and care factors identified in this study.

scholarly journals A short note on extreme points of certain polytopes

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Lei Cao ◽  
Ariana Hall ◽  
Selcuk Koyuncu
Keyword(s):  
Short Proof ◽  
Convex Polytopes ◽  
Short Note ◽  
Convex Polytope ◽  
Extreme Points ◽  
Alternative Proof ◽  
Stochastic Matrices ◽  
Doubly Stochastic ◽  
Birkhoff's Theorem ◽  
Birkhoff’S Theorem

AbstractWe give a short proof of Mirsky’s result regarding the extreme points of the convex polytope of doubly substochastic matrices via Birkhoff’s Theorem and the doubly stochastic completion of doubly sub-stochastic matrices. In addition, we give an alternative proof of the extreme points of the convex polytopes of symmetric doubly substochastic matrices via its corresponding loopy graphs.

scholarly journals Extreme black hole anabasis

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahar Hadar ◽  
Alexandru Lupsasca ◽  
Achilleas P. Porfyriadis
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Condition ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Flat Region ◽  
Extreme Black Hole ◽  
Condition Change ◽  
Birkhoff's Theorem ◽  
Birkhoff’S Theorem

Abstract We study the SL(2) transformation properties of spherically symmetric perturbations of the Bertotti-Robinson universe and identify an invariant μ that characterizes the backreaction of these linear solutions. The only backreaction allowed by Birkhoff’s theorem is one that destroys the AdS2× S2 boundary and builds the exterior of an asymptotically flat Reissner-Nordström black hole with $$ Q=M\sqrt{1-\mu /4} $$ Q = M 1 − μ / 4 . We call such backreaction with boundary condition change an anabasis. We show that the addition of linear anabasis perturbations to Bertotti-Robinson may be thought of as a boundary condition that defines a connected AdS2×S2. The connected AdS2 is a nearly-AdS2 with its SL(2) broken appropriately for it to maintain connection to the asymptotically flat region of Reissner-Nordström. We perform a backreaction calculation with matter in the connected AdS2× S2 and show that it correctly captures the dynamics of the asymptotically flat black hole.

scholarly journals Does Birkhoff’s theorem really hold?

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1357325
Author(s):  
Wenbin Lin ◽  
Manuel Bautista
Keyword(s):  
Birkhoff's Theorem ◽  
Birkhoff’S Theorem

Latent Failures of the Individual Human Behavior as a Root Cause of Medical Errors

2021 ◽  
pp. 222-234
Author(s):  
Yuriy Voskanyan ◽  
Irina Shikina ◽  
Fedor Kidalov ◽  
Saida Musaeva ◽  
David Davidov
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Medical Errors ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Human

scholarly journals Birkhoff’s theorem in Hořava gravity

2019 ◽  
Vol 99 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deniz O. Devecioğlu ◽  
Mu-In Park
Keyword(s):  
Horava Gravity ◽  
Birkhoff's Theorem ◽  
Birkhoff’S Theorem

scholarly journals HOW TO BYPASS BIRKHOFF THROUGH EXTRA DIMENSIONS: A SIMPLE FRAMEWORK FOR INVESTIGATING THE GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE IN VACUUM

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2217-2222 ◽  
Author(s):  
PIOTR BIZOŃ ◽  
BERND G. SCHMIDT
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Collapse ◽  
Einstein Equations ◽  
Dimensional System ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Spherical Collapse ◽  
Geometric Setting ◽  
Birkhoff's Theorem ◽  
Birkhoff’S Theorem ◽  
Odd Dimensions

It is fair to say that our current mathematical understanding of the dynamics of gravitational collapse to a black hole is limited to the spherically symmetric situation and, in fact, even in this case much remains to be learned. The reason is that Einstein's equations become tractable only if they are reduced to a (1 + 1)-dimensional system of partial differential equations. Owing to this technical obstacle, very little is known about the collapse of pure gravitational waves because by Birkhoff's theorem there is no spherical collapse in vacuum. In this essay, we describe a new cohomogeneity-two symmetry reduction of the vacuum Einstein equations in five and higher odd dimensions which evades Birkhoff's theorem and admits time-dependent asymptotically flat solutions. We argue that this model provides an attractive (1 + 1)-dimensional geometric setting for investigating the dynamics of gravitational collapse in vacuum.

scholarly journals On generalization of Birkhoff’s theorem

2007 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 1099-1113
Author(s):  
J. Szenthe
Keyword(s):  
Birkhoff's Theorem ◽  
Birkhoff’S Theorem
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