I don't care for the story myself, because the moral seems to be that if you are born without talent the best thing to do is to become a psychologist.

Heh heh heh.

I will say, Ole Klex's inky noodlings are famous, but they're also easily replicated by Steve Gutenberg with a cup of hot soup on a napkin. So, the ideas behind them are pretty powerful (but wonderfully unscientific), but the art behind them, NSM.

I learned a couple of years ago that the Rohrschach "answer key" is a closely guarded secret, so that people can't throw their own assessments by cheating beforehand. Which -- okay, I understand if you were to cheat on the MMPI, but inkblots??

I learned a couple of years ago that the Rohrschach "answer key" is a closely guarded secret, so that people can't throw their own assessments by cheating beforehand.

That was true, but in the age of the internet there are no more secrets.

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This is a big problem for good tests, because it can make them invalid. But the Rorschach is pretty much of a joke anyway, so no one cares.

Okay, that made me laugh too hard to decide what I thought the blots looked like.

Maps of Atlantis, every one.

I'm pretty sure the text on the deltabravo.com page is taken verbatim (and without credit, as far as I can tell) from William Poundstone's book Big Secrets.

Which is kind of funny, given the "copyright" language at the top of the page.

I kept thinking, "Cartoon character. With reflection." Which wouldn't be very helpful, I'm afraid. Anything can look like a cartoon character.

"Cartoon character. With reflection."

Two warty witches.

Two warty witches and some spilt mercury.

If it's not Atlantis, I mean.

I kept thinking, "Cartoon character. With reflection."

Me too. Apparently all the things I thought were rabbits are actually women, or penises.

Also, I'm gay, mentally defective, possibly schizophrenic, and have difficulty relating to people.

Me too, Jess. Also, I see my father as a dwarf. I have no idea what that means. My first instinct was an amiable dwarf, though, so at least it's... somewhat positive.

If it *is* directly copied from Poundstone, it's 20 year old analyses. I don't know if the test/interpretation methods would have changed in that time or not.

Yeah. I'm apparently hostile and gay, but do not have castration anxiety. But I totally flunk the Gestalt one, because all I could think of was, "You know, that's a little bit like the map of Earthsea. I wonder if Ursula used it to make her map..."