rvallee
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
There's nothing wrong with questionnaire. What's wrong is questionnaires that only use vague pseudoratings about things that don't have any answer that means anything in real life.However, it requires more money, effort (from researchers), breaking away from the familiar questionnaires
Asking about hours worked, etc., objective things happening, is perfectly fine and useful in most cases. The issue isn't really questionnaires, it's biased questionnaires of little relevance to the problem. These people are only interested in answering their own questions, they're not working at a solution to the problem. So their questionnaires are vague and useless on purpose.
All of this happened out of belief that illness is all about perception, so asking about perception of illness is fine. The damned BPS model of illness. This is the core of the systemic failure, it's simply not a serious process, so nothing that follows is serious. It's not that hard to ask relevant questions, they're not failing at this, rather they know they can't ask about anything relevant because it breaks the delusion and exposes the con.