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Record W4283806018 · doi:10.1037/per0000580

Progress but no cigar: Comment on Bach and Tracy (2022).

2022· letter· en· W4283806018 on OpenAlexaff
W. John Livesley

Bibliographic record

VenuePersonality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment · 2022
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPersonality Disorders and Psychopathology
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsycINFOPersonalityPsychologyConstruct (python library)Personality disordersMedical diagnosisAffect (linguistics)Clinical psychologyIncremental validityConstruct validityPsychotherapistCognitive psychologyPsychometricsMEDLINESocial psychologyComputer scienceMedicine

Abstract

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition alternative model of personality disorder (AMPD) introduced innovations that are likely to be enduring features of a scientific classification of personality disorder: (a) an explicit definition of personality disorder, (b) a description of levels of severity, (c) a dimensional model of individual differences, and (d) the important principle that classifications should use and be consistent with the findings of normal personality science. Bach and Tracy's review of evidence of the clinical utility of the alternative model compared with traditional typal diagnoses clearly demonstrates that dimensional classification does not adversely affect clinical utility. Based on this evidence, they propose that the AMPD minus the hybrid component be adopted as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classification of personality disorder. It is argued that the recommendation is premature because evidence of clinical utility is insufficient in the absence of evidence of construct validity. The rest of the commentary explores the conceptual and methodological problems arising from the way the AMPD's innovative features are translated into a diagnostic classification. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.054
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.070
Threshold uncertainty score0.063

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.054
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0060.005
Scholarly communication0.0060.008
Open science0.0050.003
Research integrity0.0700.072
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.014

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.072
GPT teacher head0.388
Teacher spread0.316 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2022
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