Karen got in some trouble and was sent to a juvenile detention center. She has to take a Rorschach inkblot test. She is worried because she heard somewhere that the Rorschach is not a very good test. Critics would agree with Karen and suggest that the Rorschach:

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30 December, 18:43

Karen got in some trouble and was sent to a juvenile detention center. She has to take a Rorschach inkblot test. She is worried because she heard somewhere that the Rorschach is not a very good test. Critics would agree with Karen and suggest that the Rorschach:

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The Rorschach test has failed as a predictive tool for behaviour.

Several studies have been skeptic towards the test. Firstly, there is no proof in literature that the results are reliable. It is also believed that the correlations might be illusive or false, as occured with experiments to determine homosexuality in the 1960's (which are not valid anymore). Finally, test results among different researchers have not been consistent.