Following Dietrich (2014) we consider using choice by plurality voting (CPV) as a judgment aggregation correspondence. We notice that a result of Roberts (1991) implies that CPV is axiomatically characterized by anonymity, neutrality, unanimity, and (Young’s) reinforcement. Following List (2004) and Dietrich (2015) we construct a sequential voting procedure of judgement aggregation which satisf...

By discussing social and technological developments in the system of biomedicine, article aims to postulate an identity pattern which human embodiment is inscribed context advanced biotechnologies, especially genetics genomics. The concept post-patienthood refers individual as a construct that relates person’s present medical condition range possible future scenarios, each formulated on basis g...

objective: thought-action fusion (taf) refers to the tendency to assume incorrect causal relationship between one’s own thoughts and external reality, in which, thoughts and actions are treated as equivalents. this construct is present to development and maintenance of many psychological disorders. the aim of the present study was to predict obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) and its types, an...

DiVerential item functioning is the degree to which items that comprise a measurement scale are systematically related to various exogenous variables (for example, sex, race, etc) after conditioning on the latent variable of interest, which is often represented by the total scale score. When an item functions diVerentially with respect to an exogenous variable and the source of this diVerential...

The construct validity of the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (sfGDS) has been assessed in selected populations. The aim of this study was to assess the appropriateness of applying the sfGDS to unselected older inpatients. The main component analysis of sfGDS was performed in 2032 medical inpatients (mean age = 76.3 +/- 8.4). sfGDS did not qualify as a unidimensional test. Three factors expl...

BACKGROUND This study investigated the impact of addressing item writing flaws, testing at low cognitive level and non-functioning distractors (< 5 % selection frequency) in multiple-choice assessment in preclinical medical education. METHOD Multiple-choice questions with too high or too low difficulty (difficulty index < 0.4 or > 0.8) and insufficient discriminatory ability (point-biserial c...

DiVerential item functioning is the degree to which items that comprise a measurement scale are systematically related to various exogenous variables (for example, sex, race, etc) after conditioning on the latent variable of interest, which is often represented by the total scale score. When an item functions diVerentially with respect to an exogenous variable and the source of this diVerential...