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The reason they SAY they are angry is because the test is subjective and open-ended and there has been about 100 years of research into the interpretation of th

by bshep 17y ago

The reason they SAY they are angry is because the test is subjective and open-ended and there has been about 100 years of research into the interpretation of the results. It would be very hard to replace the plates with new ones and maintain the same properties of the originals. The reason I think they are ACTUALLY angry is because they make money selling the plates/diagnostics. If they are online for free why would anyone buy them?

semiquaver 17y ago
That's a bit tinfoil-ey. It's mostly practicing psychiatrists who are upset. Do you really think that many trained doctors have a side job selling pieces of paper with public-domain images on them to a market that can be measured in thousands of people? Anyway, the quote at the bottom is a devastating takedown as far as I'm concerned: >To illustrate his point, Dr. Heilman used the Snellen eye chart, which begins with a big letter E and is readily available on the Wikipedia site. >If someone had previous knowledge of the eye chart," he said, "you can go to the car people, and you could recount the chart from memory. You could get into an accident. Should we take it down from Wikipedia?"
- bshep 17y ago
  I agree that most psychiatrists dont make money of the plates, but some of the complaints come from the company that makes the plates. I wouldn't be surprised if the company is making this into a bigger deal than the psychiatrists would on their own. This is also from the article: "Hogrefe licenses a number of companies in the United States to sell the plates along with interpretative material. One such distributor, Western Psychological Services, sells the plates themselves for $110 and a larger kit for $185." "Trudi Finger, a spokeswoman for Hogrefe & Huber Publishing, the German company that bought an early publisher of Hermann Rorschach’s book, said in an e-mail message last week: “We are assessing legal steps against Wikimedia,” referring to the foundation that runs the Wikipedia sites."

by bshep 17y ago

semiquaver 17y ago

That's a bit tinfoil-ey. It's mostly practicing psychiatrists who are upset. Do you really think that many trained doctors have a side job selling pieces of paper with public-domain images on them to a market that can be measured in thousands of people? Anyway, the quote at the bottom is a devastating takedown as far as I'm concerned: >To illustrate his point, Dr. Heilman used the Snellen eye chart, which begins with a big letter E and is readily available on the Wikipedia site. >If someone had previous knowledge of the eye chart," he said, "you can go to the car people, and you could recount the chart from memory. You could get into an accident. Should we take it down from Wikipedia?"

bshep 17y ago
I agree that most psychiatrists dont make money of the plates, but some of the complaints come from the company that makes the plates. I wouldn't be surprised if the company is making this into a bigger deal than the psychiatrists would on their own. This is also from the article: "Hogrefe licenses a number of companies in the United States to sell the plates along with interpretative material. One such distributor, Western Psychological Services, sells the plates themselves for $110 and a larger kit for $185." "Trudi Finger, a spokeswoman for Hogrefe & Huber Publishing, the German company that bought an early publisher of Hermann Rorschach’s book, said in an e-mail message last week: “We are assessing legal steps against Wikimedia,” referring to the foundation that runs the Wikipedia sites."