>> They mix in that deliberately, so as not to creep you out...?
As a free software advocate and maintainer, I've started promoting Free alternatives to commercial software in the comments under their owns ads that show up in my FB feed. That participation seems to increase the ads. So no, they don't have a clue and keep paying FB to show me that stuff.
This is probably true, especially given the state of the surveys (for example, it required less than 10 minutes perusal to uncover obvious bias against distracted-type ADHD diagnostic surveys and by extension, females with ADHD).
Although online history may provide superior illumination of a patient’s condition, crucially, it can’t be standardized. As such, it will never support the following cases:
1. Allow health insurers to predict and thus price the cost of psychiatric care.
2. Serve as an “impartial” basis for insurers to approve / deny claims in accordance with their pricing model and profit goals.
3. Create a defensible, scientific-seeming rationale for allowing some population monitored access to schedule III controlled substances while denying it to the wider public.
4. Allow wealthy, educated and self-directed individuals to learn the responses needed to obtain access to medically beneficial controlled substances without resorting to the black market.
Cynics, marxists and progressives would likely enumerate several additional cases, but the pattern remains the same. Survey-based psychological tools correlate weakly with patient outcomes and diagnostic accuracy and strongly with the politics and economics of private health care.
