[WikiEN-l] Rorchach foes strike back

[gwern0 at gmail.com]

"Complaint Over Doctor Who Posted Inkblot Test"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/business/24inkblot.html

'The doctor who helped Wikipedia publish the 10 inkblots of the Rorschach test is being investigated by his local doctors’ organization after it received complaints that his actions were unprofessional.

In a letter Wednesday from the group, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan, the doctor, James Heilman, who works in an emergency room in Moose Jaw, was notified that two psychologists had filed complaints.

One of them, Andrea Kowaz of the College of Psychologists of British Columbia, complained that by including the inkblots on Wikipedia, Dr. Heilman was violating the test’s secrecy and that if he were a psychologist his behavior would be “viewed as serious misconduct.”

The other letter, from Laurene J. Wilson, a psychologist at Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, echoed the concern about the test’s security but added that Dr. Heilman “shows disrespect to his professional colleagues in psychology and disparages them in the eyes of the public.” '

It would seem we need a maxim to cover cases where editors couldn't win online, so they switched to offline attacks - 'complaints are an extension of editing by other means'?

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gwern
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