B. PAS’s Error Rate Is Unacceptably High

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Vol. 26 ♦ No. 1 ♦ Spring 2006
Jennifer Hoult
Children’s Legal Rights Journal
Evidentiary Admissibility of Parental Alienation Syndrome
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B. PAS’s Error Rate Is Unacceptably High
Valid diagnostic criteria for unique medical
syndromes distinguish the set of symptoms for the
specified syndrome from other similar sets of
symptoms with a high degree of accuracy.
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 To
satisfy Daubert’s reliability requirement, the rate of
inaccurate diagnosis, or “error rate,” must be low.
Because there are no published studies measuring
PAS’s error rate, I will examine whether Gardner’s
DDC can reliably diagnose PAS according to his
definition."

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