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Straw men burning left and right! Call the pompiers!

Jon says: It would be interesting if we could get jj to tell us HOW MUCH a single well conducted DBT session costs (in round numbers), even though they had a dedicated set-up on call to do it. Once you factor in the cost of obtaining or renting the facilities, the sound playback equipment, the measurement gear, the acoustic treatments, etc., the cost of compensation for the listening subjects (who MUST be trained, or the whole thing is a sham)I think you would find that the cost is staggering on a per session basis for any one BUT a dedicated department of a major corporation to conduct professional and well executed DBT's on a regular basis using purpose built dedicated facilities.

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If you want to know how it works in your living room, you do the test in your living room. Cancel all facility costs. If you're doing the listening yourself, cancel all the compensation issues. If you've got a boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse, cancel the need for an independent test administrator. If you are willing to let level mismatches show up as audible results (which in some cases would be a valid outcome, in others not), you need no meters or measurement equipment.

So, what's the beef? If you're doing it for yourself, you use yourself, your own equipment, etc, and just vary the requisite things in the requisite way having your spouse/whatever change the stuff while you're not in the room.

No big whoop. Less sensitive than a quick-switched test, which has been shown time and time again to be far and away the most sensitive test, but if it's what you want to know, go for it.

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