What is this experiment, and What can you infer from this experiment?
Originally shared by Joe Carter
The Rosenhan experiment sent 12 fake patients to psychiatric hospitals and all but 1 were diagnosed with schizophrenia. The study was done to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. After publication of the study, an offended hospital challenged the author to fool them. He agreed. Hospital then diagnosed 21% of incoming patients as fakes. In reality, he sent no patients at all. This led to a conclusion that "any diagnostic process that lends itself too readily to massive errors of this sort cannot be a very reliable one".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment#The_non-existent_impostor_experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment#The_non-existent_impostor_experiment
Originally shared by Joe Carter
The Rosenhan experiment sent 12 fake patients to psychiatric hospitals and all but 1 were diagnosed with schizophrenia. The study was done to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. After publication of the study, an offended hospital challenged the author to fool them. He agreed. Hospital then diagnosed 21% of incoming patients as fakes. In reality, he sent no patients at all. This led to a conclusion that "any diagnostic process that lends itself too readily to massive errors of this sort cannot be a very reliable one".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment#The_non-existent_impostor_experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment#The_non-existent_impostor_experiment