A professional's ability to make predictions about who will attempt suicide based on standardized measures is limited because:
a) There are very few valid standardized suicide measures
b) Suicide is a very low base rate phenomenon
c) People who are planning on attempting suicide do not communicate that intention on standardize measures
d) Risk factors can not be established with standardized measures
b
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