Judging psychiatric disorders in refugees In a systematic review, Mina Fazel and colleagues (April 9, p 1309) report rates of psychiatric disorder in refugees relocated to high-income western countries, emphasising studies of more than 200 individuals. They note the substantial heterogeneity of the samples and the findings. In an accompanying Comment (p 1283), Michael Hollifield emphasises one ...

of the original article: Psychophysical scaling models of the form R = f(I), with R the response and I some intensity of an attribute, all assume that people judge the amounts of an attribute. With simple biases excepted, most also assume that judgments are independent of space, time, and features of the situation other than the one being judged. Many data support these ideas: Magnitude estimat...

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Subjects misjudge distances considerably when forced to rely on extra-retinal information. Nevertheless, they can reproducibly set a target to the same distance as a reference, or to double or half that distance, even when they have to look back and forth between them because they are prevented from seeing one when looking at the other. Our explanation for this apparent discrepancy is that peop...