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Fears & Pains. This is not the tests' only falsity, at least in the opinion of Bunkraking Author Martin Gross. A freelance writer turned test-tester, Gross argues convincingly that the personality sieves are 1) unscientific. 2) immoral, and 3) harmful to individual and corporation. Worst of all, he says, the tests do not work. The hugely profitable testing industry sells two kinds of omen analyzers. The first sort consists of printed questions that can be answered with check marks and graded by anyone who has a key. Such tests cost relatively little-as low as $7 an employee-because...
...clinical liturgy." most psychiatrists and psychologists still give it high marks for uncanny ability to reveal the innermost secrets of a test subject's personality and emotional problems. But it has one drawback: interpretation of the results is a difficult job in which even experts often disagree. Rorschach testers often have to ask questions to draw out more than one response to each blot, and judgment may be colored by the interplay of personality between tester and tested. Attempts to devise a standardized scoring system have generally failed. Now University of Texas psychologists have produced sets of carefully selected...
...reaches beyond Rorschach by 1) increasing the number of cards in a test set to 45, and 2) relying on only one response to each card. After thousands of trial runs, they claim to be able to classify a subject's responses more objectively than Rorschach. Though the tester still has to grade the responses for emotional disturbance or disordered thinking, years of testing the test have convinced the Holtzman psychologists that they now know how to reduce interference from the tester's own personality to a practical minimum...
Interpretation by H.I.T. testers of what a subject sees, or thinks he sees, in a given blot depends on the same basic principle that underlies the Rorschach: that what seem, superficially, to be chance associations actually reveal a subject's emotional makeup and deep unconscious aspects of his personality. Because most of the inkblot patterns are as symmetrical as animals or as human beings themselves, most test subjects are likely to spot anatomical images-bosoms, buttocks and even more frankly sexual symbols-where the lines converge in mid-blot. It is up to the tester to judge...
...Charles Addams imagination. And that isn't bad. Because our technique relies on many cards, we can judge whether an odd response is isolated and relatively insignificant, or whether it forms part of a pattern of responses of a similar type." Bats Abroad. The H.I.T. tester deals a card at a time, notes how many seconds it takes the subject to answer, then scores the response. Regardless of training, testers are almost certain to agree on classifying the content of the response as human, animal, anatomic, sexual or abstract...