drinking more or longer than intended to 7.49 among the 0.9% who reported activities given up in favor of drinking. However, the mean number of positive criteria fell to 5.39 among the 1.0% of past-year drinkers who endorsed legal problems, the criterion with the largest severity threshold parameter. Table 1 also illustrates that individuals endorsing just a few criteria were far more likely to endorse the less severe than the more severe criteria. Among those with just a single positive criterion, there was nearly a 75% likelihood that it was one of the three mildest criteria, and less than a 1% chance that it was among the three most severe criteria. This is to be expected, of course, because the severity parameters are estimated in such a way as to reflect the inverse of their probability of endorsement.
