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Whoever posted the ten Rorschach Inkblots with the comment that these images have "passed into the public domain", and that therefore the American Psychological Association's position that making them available to the public is irrelevant--that person is mistaken. The stricture against public displays of the Rorschach cards is not based on concerns about copyright infringement, but rather on concerns about what is called "test security", the idea that when valid test information is widely disseminated, various members of the public who may have a need to be tested may have already been exposed to some of the itmes. This may have a somewhat invalidating effect on the administration of the test. The issue is the same as when written items from the Minnesota Multiphasic or say the Wechsler IQ tests become widely disseminated, although because Rorschach scores are less "face valid", the results are likely not so impairing.

However, I am asking the monitors of this site to remove these images. As a prof who teaches assessment in a clinical psych setting and as a member of APA and of the Society for Personality Assessment, I would refer the monitors of this site to those agencies for their views on this practice. I shall also publish the url for this display among my colleagues, and I suspect you will hear similar sentiment from them. With respect, thanks to you all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.226.28.22 (talk • contribs)   (UTC)

Please see Talk:Rorschach inkblot test. Samulili (talk) 18:45, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

 

umm.. yeah those inkblots freak me out.