What did McDermott find when examining diagnostic consistency and accuracy between 72 practicing psychologists?

A. Diagnostic agreement was no better than predicting by chance.
B. The expert psychologists were very consistent.
C. Consistency between the psychologists was very high.
D. Novice psychologists were inconsistent and inaccurate.


Ans: A

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