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DISCUSSION<br />

• <strong>The</strong> validity <strong>of</strong> the DAPA categories was examined, strengths and limitations <strong>of</strong> the<br />

procedure.<br />

• <strong>The</strong> results were explained and compared and contrasted with those detailed in the<br />

literature review and the results <strong>of</strong> the pilot study, in which the content was<br />

controlled.<br />

• <strong>The</strong> interactions and correlations <strong>of</strong> the 13 variables from the DAPA procedure were<br />

discussed and compared with impressions from the literature taking account <strong>of</strong> the<br />

limitations <strong>of</strong> the procedure for the effect sizes produced by the t-test.<br />

• <strong>The</strong> discriminant procedure was discussed and compare the final outcome with<br />

previous investigations and predictions.<br />

Section 2: Reliability <strong>Study</strong><br />

An abbreviated version <strong>of</strong> this study, together with the first study (section 3) appeared<br />

in an <strong>art</strong>icle by S. Hacking, D. Foreman and J. Belcher (1996) 269 .<br />

Purpose <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Study</strong><br />

<strong>The</strong> amount <strong>of</strong> rating in this set <strong>of</strong> studies was considerable. A little over 1000 paintings<br />

were rated for the main study and the first study by the author for this research. It was<br />

necessary to find out if the rater's judgement <strong>of</strong> pictures was a contributing factor to<br />

significant differences in discriminating variables. <strong>The</strong>re are various ways <strong>of</strong> conducting<br />

inter-rater reliability tests on human subjective judgements. <strong>The</strong>re is nothing unscientific<br />

269 S. Hacking, D. Foreman and J. Belcher (1996), <strong>The</strong> Descriptive Assessment for Psychiatric Art: a new<br />

216

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