Assessing Accuracy in Forensic Psychological Assessments

Accuracy refers to how often a method or subjective reasoning process results in a correct opinion or outcome.

The accuracy of a forensic psychological assessment is often assessed by looking at whether legal factfinders agree with the practitioners' opinion.

Soft criteria refer to the inference of accuracy from agreement with factfinders, rather than relying on hard criteria like known or knowable objective ground truth.

<p>Reliance on factfinder agreement is considered suboptimal because it does not provide a reference to hard criteria and may not reflect actual accuracy.</p> Signup and view all the answers