Yes, I'm talking about those inkblots that psychiatrists always show to patients. The test generates bogus conclusions about patients based on their responses to each symmetrical blot. (I plan on going into more detail about this in my next book.)
I'm absolutely floored to discover this test is still being used in 2009.
But now folks in the psychiatric industry are furious because someone on Wikipedia posted the most common answers to each of the 10 inkblots.
The complaint isn't on copyright grounds. The copyrights on the blots have expired in both the United States and Switzerland - the country where the test's creator hailed from.
Their real complaint is that they think posting the answers spoils the test - like blabbing the answers to a high school exam.
"The only winners seem to be those for whom this issue has become personal, and who see this as a game in which victory means having their way," whined one self-styled professional. "Just don't pretend you are doing anything other than harming scientific research."
They think the Rorschach test is science?
The tone of that remark sounds like that of a shrink who was mad because a patient had caught on to their bullshit.
What's amazing is that any professional still cares enough about the Rorschach test to not want its answers revealed. This test was outdated in my generation, and it's downright antiquated now.
(Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/5936066/Wikipedia-engulfed-in-row-over-Rorschach-tests.html)
Friday, July 31, 2009
Shrinks cry foul over ruined Rorschach
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