Chunk #10 — Some general methodological considerations — Selection of symptoms or questionnaire items

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Does nature have joints worth carving? A discussion of taxometrics, model-based clustering and latent variable mixture modeling.

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It is important to consider the impact of item selection, in terms of both item content and the response scale. Already at this step, specific decisions can induce bias in favor of dimension or class detection (Gangestad & Snyder, 1985; Beauchaine & Waters, 2003).