To examine the relationship between the amount of inference required in rating Ss on personality-relevant statements and the accuracy of such ratings, 25 clinicians made personality ratings on two psychiatric outpatients. Ratings were performed on 125 statements which had been Q-sorted on a dimension of inference required in rating by a separate group of clinicians. Differential accuracy was demonstrated for statements lying at the extremes on the inference dimension, but correlational analyses for the entire pool of statements showed no relationship between accuracy or variability of ratings and level of inference.
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