[WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

[Steve Bennett]

So, can someone fill me in on why we're laughing at this? From the article:

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To psychologists, to render the Rorschach test meaningless would be a
particularly painful development because there has been so much
research conducted — tens of thousands of papers, by Dr. Smith’s
estimate — to try to link a patient’s responses to certain
psychological conditions. Yes, new inkblots could be used, these
advocates concede, but those blots would not have had the research —
“the normative data,” in the language of researchers — that allows the
answers to be put into a larger context.
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That seems like a pretty reasonable concern to me. To destroy the
effectiveness of a test that has that kind of research background to
it (tens of thousands of papers!!) doesn't seem like a laughing
matter. Maybe it's unavoidable. Maybe it's collateral damage. But the
concern that publishing it on Wikipedia is different from publishing
it elsewhere on the web seems legitimate.

Steve