The issue before the New Jersey Supreme Court in the Frye hearing New Jersey v. J.L.G. (2018) was whether the scientific community agreed that Summit's (1983) Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome rested on a firm scientific foundation. Lyon et al. (this issue) critique our approach to describing child sexual abuse disclosure, which involved extrapolating rates from children who came to the attention of authorities. Lyon et al. claim that our conclusions are marred by sampling biases resulting from what they term the ground truth problem, suspicion bias and substantiation bias. The points Lyon et al. claim we “fell victim to” were the very points we acknowledge are inherent difficulties in estimating the extent to which children will come forward to tell others about sexual maltreatment. Lyon et al. offer an alternative solution to the inherent difficulties in studying a difficult‐to‐identify population, relying in large part on 21 papers published mostly in the 1960s and 1970s. We argue that the method they propose has more flaws than the one it is intended to replace. Points of agreement and disagreement, along with suggestions for future research, are discussed. Moving forward, we argue that studies are needed that embrace both validity and generalizability in order to foster data‐driven theories rather than invoking the intuitive suppositions of Summit's (1983) syndromal evidence.

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分析儿童性虐待适应综合征的科学依据：对里昂等人的答复。

新泽西最高法院在弗莱（Frye）听证新泽西州诉JLG案上的问题。（2018）是科学界是否同意Summit（1983）的《儿童性虐待适应综合症》建立在牢固的科学基础上。里昂等。（此问题）批评我们描述儿童性虐待披露的方法，其中涉及从引起当局注意的儿童中推断出儿童的性虐待率。里昂等。声称我们的结论受到抽样偏差的破坏，这些偏差是由他们所谓的地面真理问题，怀疑偏差和实证偏差造成的。里昂等人的观点。声称我们“让受害者屈服”是我们认识到的重点，它们是估计儿童在多大程度上会告诉他人有关性虐待的内在困难。里昂等。为研究难以识别的人口所固有的困难提供了另一种解决方案，其中主要依靠1960年代和1970年代发表的21篇论文。我们认为，他们提出的方法比打算替代的方法有更多的缺陷。讨论了共识和分歧点，以及对未来研究的建议。展望未来，我们认为需要进行既包含有效性又具有可概括性的研究，以便培育数据驱动的理论，而不是引用Summit（1983）综合征证据的直观假设。