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Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship
GigsVT writes "Editors on Wikipedia are engaged in an epic battle over a few piece of paper smeared with ink. The 10 inkblot images that form the classic Rorschach test have fallen into the public domain, and so including them on Wikipedia would seem to be a simple choice. However, some editors have cited the American Psychological Association's statement that exposure of the images to the public is an unethical act, since prior exposure to the images could render them ineffective as a psychological test. Is the censorship of material appropriate, when the public exposure to that material may render it useless?"
Exposer to to pseudo-science renders it useless??? Now if we can apply that to Intelligent design?
Some days I get the sinking feeling Orwell was an optimist.
Everyone knows they're all pictures of boobs anyway.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
Here are some examples of ink blots, and patient reaction.
http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF233-Psychoanalyst.jpg
I went to the Wikipedia page and saw what appears to be ten pictures of vaginas. Is that why everyone is so worked up about this?
Wait until the optometrists discover that Wikipedia is using an uncensored Snellen eye chart. Pssst! The big letter at the top is an "E."
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
If there are only 10 then why are they all pictures of my mother when she's angry?
I am both a dope smoker and a scientifically-minded person, you insensitive clod!
I think the doubt thrown on the validity of the tests is all over the place anyway. Why not just let the tests out and end the debate there?
They are useful. Here were my answers: butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly. Based on my answers, my analyst, Dr. Lector, said I was a tedious but promising candidate to be a murderous sociopath. He said it was going to take some work, though. I'm now in a cage taking heavy doses of barbiturates "to help me with my progress". I'm still waiting for the next phase of treatment when I get the spinal injections before being forced to listen to Beethoven's Ode to Joy and watching Nazis have sex with prostitutes.
Who would have thought so much treatment could be advised from how one interprets bilaterally symmetric and colorful images that have the same vague appearance as a major phylogeny from the tree of life. I feel better already!
Just callin' it like I see it.
I too scoff at the validity of these so called Rorschach tests. Any Phrenologist will tell you the only thing that really matters is the shape of your head. For you see, the form of the cranium represents the form of the brain, and thus reflects the relative development of the brain organs.
You sound angry. Tell me how you feel about this.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
hmmm, I saw butterfly, red x, red x, red x, red x, red x, red x, butterfly, butterfly, red x
"These aren't the inkblots you are looking for." /waves hand
Sorry, someone had to.
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
I'm now in a cage taking heavy doses of barbiturates "to help me with my progress".
And I see he thought a laptop with internet access would help too. Very wise, this Dr. Lector...
The enemies of Democracy are
You sound angry. Tell me how you feel about this.
Does it please you to believe that I sound angry tell you how I feel about this?
You are not a brain: http://books.google.com/books?id=2oV61CeDx-YC
1 pr0n
2 Children
3 terrorists
4 copyright
5 iphone
6 free/beer
7 grass-mud horse
8 Obama
9 ubuntu
10 NYCL
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The test does provide interesting info. Not about the subject, though--about the one administering it, to the observers that are always behind the one-way mirror, evaluating that person.
(Just doing my part to make the psychologists of the world paranoid.)
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.
"What do you see?"
"I see a lonely aging man whose degree was too volatile and who is now being passed by the information age."
"Very good. What about this one?"
"I see a dream of a time gone by, when life had a hope worth living."
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She'd say: "Oh God, he's never going to move out is he?"
I see two naked women very thoroughly covered up by inkblots. All Rorschach pictures were made by that approach, it's well known. It's less common knowledge that several windows fonts have been created with the same approach. Wingdings of course, but also Arial. Arial bold is particularly naughty, hence the name.