CLINICAL JUDGMENT AS A DISCIPLINED INQUIRY

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Clinical judgment is the informal application of the creative, inquiring intelligence to human problems as principally conveyed through words. The methods it uses are in large part different from those of statistical prediction, although they are not by that token mysterious, unanalyzable or sacrosanct: they are the operations used in all sciences and in all kinds of disciplined human inquiry as hypotheses are formed or as the scholar reflects on the meaning of what he has found. The clinician should make every effort to test his hypotheses by generating concrete predictions and verifying them on new samples of data. But he should also strive to understand, to discipline and to improve the analytic and synthetic processes of clinical judgment. In doing so, he can get more help from studying the methods of other disciplines that deal with verbal meanings than he can from predictive experiments themselves.

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