viernes, 9 de octubre de 2009

Wikipedia and Rorschach test’s answers

Since a Canadian doctor posts in famous online encyclopedia Wikipedia the “right” answers of Rorschach test, it has become a new problem in our discipline.
Rorschach test was developed in 1921 by psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach. It has 10 inkblot images, which patients have to look at them and describe what they see in it.
The Rorschach test has been a great tool for psychologist, because when people answer this test people show a complete unknown part of them. Now psychologists are afraid that patients can memorize the “right” answers, so obviously it can give a wrong analysis.
The problem started when doctor James Heilman from Saskatchewan posted all the inkblots and the most common answers that people gives when they look at them. He said that he did that as a response when he got frustrated by a debate when he wanted to take down a single Rorschach inkblot plate.
Psychologists said that making the test public can become it useless. "Making images available on the internet will make it obsolete and we will have lost a helpful tool," said one psychologist.
But this is not the first time that this happened. In 1983 William Poundstone published the inkblots in his book Big Secrets how the test is administered.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/29/rorschach-answers-wikipedia

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