Interpretive Procedures Entailed in Using the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test*

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The authors examined the differences between a self‐administered and counselor‐administered Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test and the status accorded the score in determining diagnosis. It was found that interpretive work by counselors and clients led to a number of changed answers from first to second testing. It was further found that, since the counselors took into account supplementary information not provided by the test score alone, they frequently established a diagnosis that differed from the one indicated by the test they had administered. As a result of these two sets of changes, diagnostic classification by the self‐administered test was found to be a poor predictor of the ultimate diagnosis by the counselors.

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