Talk:Denial and minimization in sex offenders

Obscure language

This article is way too difficult to apprehend. What do these phrases even mean:

• Greater endorsement of cognitive distortions
• a dichotomous variable reflecting denial and minimization
• actuarial risk

__meco (talk) 17:50, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

• "Greater endorsement" means they asked you questions and you gave answers that indicated you have cognitive distortions. An example would be that if you answered "yes" to a bunch of these questions, that would be "greater endorsement of cognitive distortions" than if you answered no to all of them.
• "A dichotomous variable" means it can be either present or not present. I.e. you're either denying and minimizing, or you're not.
• "Actuarial risk" means that factors are present that statistically are associated with risk of offending. E.g., if you're young, that increases your actuarial risk.

Lysander (talk) 18:44, 25 November 2015 (UTC)