Leaked Rorschach Blots Cause Controversy
July 30, 2009 by admin
Filed under Health, The Unexplained
Most everyone knows a little bit about the Rorschach Test. A series of inkblots is shown to a patient who must then interpret what the obscure blot of ink on paper looks like to them. There are no right answers, but patients are evaluated on their perception of the images.
Recently, an uproar has arisen in the medical community concerning the leaking of the entire series of 10 inkblots into the public domain. Apparently, the blots were uploaded in June to Wikipedia by a skeptical emergency room doctor. Although there is now concern that patients may be able to “game the system” by coming to the test armed with the most common answers, there has been no infringement by the release of the test. Since the test was first created in 1923, the images are not copyright protected, and therefore belong in the public domain.
I thought it would be fun to post all of the 10 blots here, and give my interpretation along with the most common answers. The conclusion appears to be that I just might be clinically insane! But we knew that already, yes?
Blot #1
Blot #2
Blot #3
Blot #4
Blot #5
Blot #6
Blot #7
Blot #8
Blot #9
Blot #10
Answers
Blot #1 - Natalina says: Evil dog/werewolf … Most people say: bat, butterfly, moth
Blot #2 – Natalina says: Bloodthirsty clown… Most people say: two humans (I don’t see it)
Blot #3 – Natalina says: Large breasted women praying to an alien god… Most people say: two humans
Blot #4 - Natalina says: Sasquatch sitting on a dragon… Most people say: animal skin, massive animal
Blot #5 – Natalina says: Mothman… Most people say: bat, butterfly, moth
Blot #6 – Natalina says: Dragonfly emerging from funky vagina… Most people say: animal hide, skin, rug
Blot #7 – Natalina says: Ants having a staring contest/Ants about to kiss… Most people say: human heads, faces
Blot #8 – Natalina says: Pink: Manatees… Most people say: pink: animal
Blot #9 - Natalina says: Orange: Fire and water… Most people say: orange: human
Blot #10 – Natalina says: Pink: Seahorses, Eiffel Tower… Most people say: blue: crab, lobster, spider
To read more about the Rorschach Test and the ethical ambiguity of printing the test in public, visit the Wiki page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test
I never let on what is really on my mind when I look at all of those lewd pictures.
Hope all is well with you and your family.
Storm in a teacup. My partner’s a clinical psychologist and it makes absolutely no difference whether people have seen them before: REAL psychologists are trained to spot “form” answers and it’s the discussion of the blots that matters, not just a one-line response.
Just about any analyst has access to them and they’re reproduced in text books… what’s the problem?
Ooh fun!
1. Bat – OK I’m common I get it.
2. Hemorrhoids.
3. Burlesque dancer.
4. A pelvis.
5. Vampire bat.
6. Yes you’re right, totally a vag.
7. Balinese dancers doing the nasty.
8. Salamanders shooting webs out of their feet.
9.The Goblet of Fire (I’m reading Harry Potter)
10.The Snow Queen from Narnia.
And you thought you were insane!
1. Two Angels facing each other.
2. Two Children playing pattycake.
3. Two naked dancers around a bowl or pool or soemthing like that.
4. Roadkill.
5. A sad Japanese womanlookimg over a wall, “Mazuaki was here”.
6. Most definitely spaceship, yes a spaceship, there is no genitals inthis picture. None at all.
7. Two rabbits, singing “walk like an Eqyptian: at each other.
8. Top view of a spaceplame in thermal imaging.
9. A bull, a snake, and an insect head stack on top of each other.
10. An elderly stripper, complete with pink feather boa, blue pom-poms, and horrendously sagging bra.
Discuss.
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Larry, I suppose some things are best kept private, lest we reveal too much! Fam is alright, thanks for asking.
Spike, I know. I don’t know what all of the controversy is about either. But, it’s there. I bet I even will get emails accusing me of unethical practices by posting them here! Oh well.
Cheryl, my faves on your list..
Hemorrhoids! Hahahaha! I can totally see it and you’re gross! Salamanders shooting webs out of their feet… once again, totally see it! We truly are lunatics! And then there’s….
Richard! You’re the craziest one of all! I can see the angels. The two rabbits thing is hilarious, and I see that now too! #8 reveals your inner nerd, #10 is hysterical, and now when I look at that blot, all I can see is a saggy old lady dancing her heart out! FUNNY!
Fishhawk, thanks for the shout out, you’re not the first to call me a fool, you won’t be the last. Your Christian charity and kindness is truly inspiring
hahaahah richard’s #10 is phenomenal!!! can’t stop thinking ’bout the old lady XD hahahaha