Feedback on: Interrater reliability in unbalanced designs: A comment on Scholte et al. (2009)

We appreciate the feedback given by the authors on our article “The Reliability of the Developmental Profile Based on Video Ratings” ( Scholte, Tiemens, Meerman, Verheul, & Hutschemaekers 2009). It underlines the fact that the interest in good psychodynamic diagnostics has a broad base. The problem the authors raise covers the whole field of the research into the reliability of clinically relevant interviews and is certainly worth investigating more closely. The authors provide detailed criticism on three points of our study: