Additional points of comparison for the results of the current meta-analysis are the empirically derived consensus FFM profiles provided by researchers (Lynam & Widiger, 2001) and clinicians (Samuel & Widiger, 2004). The researchers surveyed by Lynam and Widiger (and the clinicians subsequently surveyed by Samuel and Widiger) were asked to describe a prototypic case of a given personality disorder on all 30 facets of the FFM using a 1 (extremely low) to 5 (extremely high) Likert scale. Those ratings were then averaged across observers to arrive at a consensus FFM profile for each personality disorder. In order to compare the consensus profiles to the results from the current meta-analysis, the FFM descriptions were first subjected to a linear transformation (i.e., [v −3] / 2, where v is the consensus rating) so that they would be on the same -1.00 to 1.00 metric as the correlation effect sizes. The first and third columns of Table 4 provide the standard Pearson correlations of the current study's meta-analytically derived profiles with those provided by the researchers and clinicians. These correlations were generally strong,
