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1 Suppose someone said to you, “My 20 years of practice experience is my scientific evidence.” What do you think of this statement?

2 Under what circumstances have you engaged in service activities (or treatment approaches) for which you had no scientific evidence of effectiveness. Did you think about evidence in this regard? Did you seek evidence by asking others or going to the literature?

3 What is one of the signs that an assertion about practice may be based on pseudoscience?

4 Suppose you found that your clients had a measured gain of 20% on an anxiety scale between the beginning and end of treatment but the differences between the pretest and posttest were not found to be statistically significant. Would you conclude that your clients had a modest gain with regard to anxiety? Explain.

5 What do you think about the question of whether the full moon is associated with unusual behavior?

6 What kinds of professional decisions do you believe are most in need of assistance from scientific studies?

7 Suppose you are using a practice method that has little evidence of its effectiveness with the target population on whom you are using it. Do you believe that the burden on you to evaluate your practice (with data) is greater because of this lack of evidence?