Thursday, July 30, 2009

If ‘cramming’ for a Rorschach– or giving one …



You have plenty of other “issues” besides the question of whether Wikipedia is now a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/technology/internet/29inkblot.html"a Rorschach cheat sheet/a. br /br /Beyond psychologists getting bent out of shape over 10 original Rorschach plates being posted by Wiki, ijust what does it test?/ibr /br /Have psychologists and psychiatrists ever demonstrated that?br /br /Per who else but a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test"Wikipedia/a, the short answer is “no”:br /blockquoteSome researchers have raised questions about the objectivity of psychologists administrating the test; inter-rater reliability; the verifiability and general validity of the test; bias of the test's pathology scales towards greater numbers of responses; the limited number of psychological conditions which it accurately diagnoses; the inability to replicate the test's norms; its use in court-ordered evaluations; and the proliferation of the ten inkblot images, potentially invalidating the test for those who have been exposed to them./blockquotebr /So, some psychologists are protesting that their priesthood has been violated and a pseudoscientific central tenet has been revealed.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-980817679170600362?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div

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