How often is "often"? Improving assessment of the externalizing spectrum using absolute frequency.
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DOI: 10.1037/pas0001441
Abstract: Nearly all questionnaires of externalizing problems use vague quantifiers of relative frequency (e.g., rarely/sometimes/often) or true/false statements. Vague quantifiers have many problems, including imprecision and low interpretability. An alternative is numeric quantifiers that quantify, in… read more here.
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