I thought I saw something on the Rorschach controversy in either the National Post or the Globe and Mail yesterday, but for the life of me I just cannot find the article anymore to link it here. After seeing that article yesterday, I had jotted down in my "book of jots" to write something on it for my blog so here goes.
I believe there is a huge controversy going on re.disclosing on the Internet, how the test works. Wikipedia, according to some comments I read on a forum, has been threatened with a lawsuit by a horde of shrinks, if the tests become available online.
Wikipedia has put up this notice on their "Rorschach inkblot" search page:
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Wiki page on inkblot test,very informative
Many consider the Rorschach inkblot test to be just pseudoscience. Inkblots cards used to be a kind of game that was a favorite at parties and in my opinion it is nothing but mumbo jumbo used by shrinks in order to determine the mental state of a patient. Wrong method.
Psychologists and psychiatrists are not only going after Wikipedia, they are on the warpath with several other websites that have analysis on these inkblot tests.
One such website posted this on their search page:
"After repeated letters from dozens of outraged psychologists and psychiatrists claiming that this page "violates the copyright on the Rorschach Test", we feel compelled to post this notice:
The information presented here, including the outlines of the Rorschach inkblots, is not in violation of copyright law. Please don't waste your time writing us to complain or threatening to "turn us in to the publisher". Followed by a Disclaimer.
see here
If you feel like taking the test, for fun purposes only mind you, then go here.
test
I did, but you don't want to know the results. :} :}
I believe there is a huge controversy going on re.disclosing on the Internet, how the test works. Wikipedia, according to some comments I read on a forum, has been threatened with a lawsuit by a horde of shrinks, if the tests become available online.
Wikipedia has put up this notice on their "Rorschach inkblot" search page:
This page is currently protected from editing until August 6, 2009 or until disputes have been resolved.This protection is not an endorsement of the current version. See the protection policy and protection log for more details. Please discuss any changes on the talk page; you may use the {{editprotected}} template to ask an administrator to make the edit if it is supported by consensus. You may also request that this page be unprotected
Wiki page on inkblot test,very informative
Many consider the Rorschach inkblot test to be just pseudoscience. Inkblots cards used to be a kind of game that was a favorite at parties and in my opinion it is nothing but mumbo jumbo used by shrinks in order to determine the mental state of a patient. Wrong method.
Psychologists and psychiatrists are not only going after Wikipedia, they are on the warpath with several other websites that have analysis on these inkblot tests.
One such website posted this on their search page: "After repeated letters from dozens of outraged psychologists and psychiatrists claiming that this page "violates the copyright on the Rorschach Test", we feel compelled to post this notice:
The information presented here, including the outlines of the Rorschach inkblots, is not in violation of copyright law. Please don't waste your time writing us to complain or threatening to "turn us in to the publisher". Followed by a Disclaimer.
see here
If you feel like taking the test, for fun purposes only mind you, then go here.
test
I did, but you don't want to know the results. :} :}
did you know that if you keep recalibrating the results you will end up with a result which tells you that you are normal.
ReplyDeleteYeh, but what exactly is normal, that is the question.
ReplyDeleteI hope you read the respond from the web-admin of the last link, to the people who are threathening them with a lawsuit. Too funny !!
As a professional test developer, this is not funny at all. That Moose Jaw physician has breached his own code of ethics by not respecting the discipline of psychologists. The Rorschach is not the most valid and reliable test available, but there is a good reason, known to legitimate users of the test for not publishing the cards, even though it is technically legal. Test development and research is expensive and time-consuming. I hope that APA and CPA and regulators of the professions of psychiatry do intervene successfully.
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