TY - JOUR
AU - Du Mas, Frank M.
AB -  DU MAS Universit3, of Denver INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to introduce a simple, quick and objective method of arriving at a statement concerning the degree of similarity of one profile to another. There are many tests whose results may be put in profile form. Profiles have been constructed from scores obtained on aptitude, attitude, interest, educational achievement, intelligence and personality tests. Recently, the Bernreuter Personality Inventory(‘+),the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory(3), and the Wechsler - Bellevue Scales ( 1,2) have been found to yield fairly typical profiles for diagnostic groups. The concept of profile types as indicative of specific personality disorders is interesting enough to warrant investigation and exploitation. The hard pressed psychometrician or clinician could well use an objective method of describing the similarity of one profile to another. The method presented in this paper is not an elaborate statistical procedure ; it was not devised to be used as a precision instrument; it should not be used when more exact measures are obtainable and time permits their application. It was devised to be used by the psychometrician or clinician ‘on the job’ when a profile is difficult to categorize or an approximation of the 
TI - A quick method of analyzing the similarity of profiles
JF - Journal of Clinical Psychology
DO - 10.1002/1097-4679(194601)2:1<80::AID-JCLP2270020111>3.0.CO;2-B
DA - 1946-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/a-quick-method-of-analyzing-the-similarity-of-profiles-6c312X6GtX
SP - 80
EP - 83
VL - 2
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -