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Psychologists --- Fair or Foul?
Was it right and proper for WIKIPEDIA to publish the Rorschach test for all to see? Please explain your answers.
Should someone also instruct how to answer or how to evaluate the questions in the MMPI?
J, what text book did you use on the MMPI?
Skippy, why is publishing data about Rorschach or the MMPI, unethical? At best the reader could learn about the statistical assumptions upon which these tests were based. Unlike the SAT, GRE, MCAT -- test which can affect an individuals life, the MMPI and Rorschach can and sometime does affect an individual's freedom and liberty.
How can the public learn that Psychological tests are better predictors than a Ouiji board or deck of Tarrot cards? We have released the designs and data about atomic bombs and CW agents SARIN, etc. FuelAirExplosives. Even magic tricks are published --- why is it unethical for psychologist to publish data on their "science"?
Addendum: "Tests rely on the person not being test-wise." Do all psychologist hold to this for all psychology testing or for all testing?
Would you apply this standard to say a Statistic test? Why?
I would like to know why --- providing knowledge about a subject is deemed "unethical". Would a Catholic find chemical analsis of the waffer that believe to be something else unethical to be published?
Is it unethical to disclose how a magical illusion is performed? Why is one unethical and the others not?
Addendum: "Tests rely on the person not being test-wise." Do all psychologist hold to this for all psychology testing or for all testing?
Would you apply this standard to say a Statistic test? Why?
I would like to know why --- providing knowledge about a subject is deemed "unethical". Would a Catholic find chemical analsis of the waffer that believe to be something else unethical to be published?
Is it unethical to disclose how a magical illusion is performed? Why is one unethical and the others not?
5 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
More knowledge is always better than less, in my experience. I would like to see why people feel the publication was so evil. Sound a bit like why the RCC did not want their Bible published in anything but Latin or Greek.
I would like to see more debate on this topic.
- 1 decade ago
I believe it was totally unethical for Wikipedia to do this!! Just as it would be unethical to instruct someone on the MMPI. Tests rely on the person not being test-wise and have built in filters to determine if someone is faking good or bad. It totally denigrates the testing process if people know before hand what to answer. On the other hand it also shows something about that person that they would try to fake the test. Tests are meant to tease out information on thinking/thought processes and a variety of other issues so as to help confirm/rule out particular diagnosis' and thereby help the psychoogist and client come up with appropriate treatment plans.
- KarenLLv 61 decade ago
I, not a psychologist, see nothing wrong or unethical about publishing data about these test. I am shocked at the low response rate to this question by psychologist --- since this was a NYT article that started this. This post does not address the question because I cannot.
It is amazing that no psychologist is willing to explain why publishing the blots was unethical?
- J...Lv 41 decade ago
The Rorschach or any other tests for that matter should not be published. As for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, you should learn how to to answer and evaluate in a school setting.
Way too complex of a question to be answered here...
Good luck
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- ?Lv 45 years ago
If the ball is in foul territory has no longer been touched by means of someone or some thing and crosses into reasonable flooring earlier than the bottom and is in reasonable flooring on the base ir is a reasonable batted ball.
