The Rorschach butterfly effect: it L.L. a mistake.
Errors in Rorschach coding and interpretation have contributed substantially to the ink-blot literature, with reported discrepancies on even the simplest scoring tasks. A review of the underlying assumptions uncovered a long-standing location aberration, stemming from Beck's adaptation of Klopfer and perpetuated through Exner. The resulting coding errors (D3 or Dd28, and "o" or "u") in a highly-scrutinized and regularly selected domain of card II potentiates a "butterfly effect" escalation of interpretative malfeasance. It remains unclear whether review of the vast data-base of collected protocol summaries will undo the cumulative putative error, or whether the creation of a fresh approach to Rorschach may be the best way forward for Rorschach in the 21st century.
King
Michael G
MG
Sebastopol Medical Clinic, Sebastopol, Victoria 3352, Australia. drking@literallygifted.com
D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006801:Humans; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012392:Rorschach Test / Q000592:standards*