Does the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?

24 thoughts on “Does the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?”

1. Love this show and its subjects!

2. Another cool video. PBS is knocking it out of the park on every channel.

3. Great work!!

4. I predict many comments about genitalia…

5. Amazing work! Very thorough, informative and entretaining.

6. I wonder what results artificial intelligences today would get if they took various personality tests. And what the Origin of AI might be, for an episode on something super recent, which might highlight a difference in how we think about origins of old things vs origins of new things, which I'd really like to hear about.

7. This is such a great concept for a show and really well executed, it really deserves more popularity.

8. ?

9. Well, at least Rorschach died for what he believed in, unlike the rest of Watchmen, who just went along with Veidt's utopia.

10. Love series.
    Talking is faster than I can listen. Feel a bit anxious at the speed.

11. Love this channel!! I think it would be interesting to know the origins of schools. Since when children as a whole were considered different and therefore in need of a specific environment for learning with specific methods? I am sure elites have been taught throughout history but not as a mass thing as it is today. Is this due to industrial revolution? Thanks!

12. I was given this test by my psychologist(?), I gave him so many answers including things like "dogs playing trumpets" and "sad birds", each blot filled up a whole page of words he eventually asked me to stop because he couldn't keep up with writing!
    Love this channel!

13. I really have to stop forgetting to like these videos!

14. Let me help people.. Click the Settings icon, and put the speed to 0.75. NOW! You can have time to process all the thing she says in 5 seconds!

15. Two bears high-fiveing.

    I hope someone gets this.

16. Two bears highfiving

17. Too well known to be useful anymore – "As a research subject, Lecter has proven most disappointing. He's simply impenetrable to psychological testing. Rorschach, Thematic Apperception… he folds them into origamis, as you can see."

18. I took one of these as a kid (well, it wasn't an ink blot but a a blacked out picture) and one of the pictures had one man lying on a table with another man holding a knife over the one on the table, when the therapist asked me what I thought about the scene I said in as much of a dead pane way as possible (I tended to tell jokes in that way and still do to this day) that the man was getting ready for his breast implant surgery.

    For whatever reason this horrified him and with a look of terror he ended the session and then called up my mother to say "I think your daughter is deranged" and explained what happened. My mother burst out laughing and had to explain that I had a weird sense of humor and was messing with him. I still to this day don't know why that was such a horrifying answer to him when I knew that he was expecting me to answer something along the lines of "it's a murder" or " it's a sacrifice" which are honestly more disturbing than a guy getting a boob job.

    My best guess is that he was transphobic.

19. i had a psychologist give me o Rorschach test in like 2013, she found i was both narcissistic and self conscious which was interesting

20. That Rorschach… Daaammnn. He can psychoanalyze me anytime

21. The Rorsach is a failed test – just like going through 10,000 black people and standardizing a response.

22. The Rorschach test also failed – because the basis is "discrimination" of perception. I will not allow myself to be discriminated based on perception of some meaningless , subjective blob , sorry

23. Some sort of personality test. Don't know what people see in it.
    Credit QI.

24. It all looks like genitalia to me.

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