... Public Policy, and Law 1996, 2, 293–323 #167 Comparative Efficiency of Informal (Subjective, Impressionistic) and Formal (Mechanical, Algorithmic) Prediction Procedures: The Clinical–Statistical ... subset of the cases, the clinical and actuarial prediction are the same; among those, the hit rates will be identical. In another subset, the clinician countermands the equation in the light of ... deceiving themselves and the policy makers they persuade. There is a more interesting conceptual breakdown of the total class of cases that deserves theoretical analysis and empirical study. The...