The Guilford Test of Marital Discord is administered to a newly married young woman who is being seen in psychotherapy. The results indicate that the woman is very unhappy in her marriage. Knowing that testing literature reports that the test has a high rate of false positives, a good clinician would
A) be cautious of the results, as a high false positive rate means that the test may have inaccurately identified a problem when none existed.
B) be confident in the results, as the patient's score exceeded a cut-off score.
C) want to retest the young woman with the same instrument to reduce the false positive rate, which is most likely due to chance.
D) be cautious because the young woman may not be answering questions honestly to hide her marital problems.
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