Under what conditions might a clinician find a clinical judgment, rather than statistical data, useful?

A) when there are no relevant statistical data upon which to rely
B) when the clinician’s intuition leads her away from the statistical data
C) when the training of the therapist lends itself more readily to clinical judgment than to empirical studies
D) when the statistical data point to the efficacy of a treatment in which the clinician is not trained


Answer: A

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