30 July 2009

TYWKIWDBI helps you cheat on your test



Your Rorschach test. The ten standard inkblots of the famous Rorschach have been posted at Wikipedia, along with the "answers" (the most common responses, made by presumably normal people."

Psychiatrists have their proverbial knickers in a twist:

"The more test materials are promulgated widely, the more possibility there is to game it..." He quickly added that he did not mean that a coached subject could fool the person giving the test into making the wrong diagnosis, but rather "render the results meaningless."

To psychologists, to render the Rorschach test meaningless would be a particularly painful development because there has been so much research conducted - tens of thousands of papers, by Dr. Smith's estimate - to try to link a patient's responses to certain psychological conditions.
Hat tip to Kottke.

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