On the (Un)reliability of Visual Analysis and What to Do About It belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In On the (Un)reliability of Visual Analysis and What to Do About It, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →There is a growing body of literature questioning the reliability of visual analysis and proposing methods for remediation. We agree with others who have proposed that quantitative judgement tools can be used in conjunction with visual analysis, however, such tools are of little value if practitioners are not willing to use them. We approached this problem by constructing a judgement tool using confidence intervals with special attention to the willingness of users to adopt the practice. We then taught a sample of practitioners to use the tool in application to scenarios in which early detection of causal relationships is critical. We chose functional analysis (FA) as a model for such scenarios. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of teaching practitioners to integrate confidence intervals into their visual inspection of hypothetical FA graphs. We then propose some directions for further investigation that may promote future best practices.
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Dr. Allie Rader is a Board Certified and Massachusetts licensed Behavior Analyst. Allie currently works for the May Institute as the Executive Director for the May Center School in Wilmington. She received her PhD in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) from Endicott College and teaches as adjunct faculty at Endicott, Elms College and Simmon’s University. Allie has more than ten years of clinical experience in the field of ABA with special expertise in severe challenging behavior, behavioral treatment of medically complex individuals with rare diagnoses, as well as school consultation. She has been implementing and training others in crisis management of individuals with severe behavior challenges for over seven years. Allie’s research interests include data analytics in single subject design and a scientist-practitioner model of service delivery. She has published work in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and European Journal of Behavior Analysis and a book chapter on functional analysis.
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