A new article was recently published indicating the Fake Bad Scale adopted by the University of Minnesota Press as a part of the MMPI2 scoring package has results in over 50% of women, depending on the cut score used,  in a hospital with documented eating disorders actually failing the scale.

 The article is critical of the process by which the scale was actually adopted and concludes, “The FBS does not appear to be sufficiently reliable or valid test for measuring “faking bad” nor should it be used to impute the motivation to malinger in those reaching its variable and imprecise cutting scores.”   

12/17/07, Butcher, James, Gass, Carlton, Cumella, Edward, Zina, Kally, Willliams, Carolyn

Potential for Bias in MMPI2 Assessment Using the Fake Bad Scale. Psychol. Inj and law

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Dorothy Clay Sims, Esq. ~ Sims, Stakenborg & Henry, PA.

 Offices in Ocala, Marion County, Florida and Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida. We provide service to the surrounding areas. Our telephone number is: 352-629-0480. Please visit our website at: www.ocalaw.com

If you are accused of malingering based upon the fake bad scale on the mmpi2, read about the creator of the fake bad scale in an article called:

Welding’s Toxic Legacy: Did a 5 Billion Dollar Industry Cover up the Health Risks of Manganese to Thousands of Workers?

The same article cites Dr. Erin Bigler, a professor of psychology at Brigham Yong University saying, “It has every appearance of the industry buying science”   http://www.publicintegrity.org/Manganese/Default.htm     

Dorothy Clay Sims, Esq. ~ Sims, Stakenborg & Henry, PA.  

Offices in Ocala, Marion County, Florida and Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida. We provide service to the surrounding areas. Our telephone number is: 352-629-0480. Please visit our website at: www.ocalaw.com

Plaintiff lawyers Dorothy Clay Sims and Matthew D. Powell obtained a $1.5 million dollar verdict for a client who was charged with malingering. Read the full story here.

Dorothy Clay Sims, Esq. ~ Sims, Stakenborg & Henry, PA.

 Offices in Ocala, Marion County, Florida and Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida. We provide service to the surrounding areas. Our telephone number is: 352-629-0480. Please visit our website at: www.ocalaw.com