The prediction of death from cancer by means of personality/stress questionnaire: too good to be true?
Recent work by Grossarth-Maticek and Eysenck has suggested that there are personality traits which in combination can predict cancer in healthy probands with 81% accuracy. Many critics have considered this result "too good to be true." It is shown that earlier studies have given results not very different in accuracy, suggesting that such a criticism is unwarranted.
Eysenck
H J
HJ
University of London, Institute of Psychiatry, UK.
D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000523:psychology; D010556:Personality Tests; D012307:Risk Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*