You might not be as crazy as you think

What do you see in this ink blot?

It doesn't really matter, anyway.

Now, it seems the old Rorschach test, lampooned along with the rest of the psychiatric industry for decades, isn't all that reliable.

So suggests the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, as reported by Newsweek.

Excerpt:

... psychologists Scott Lilienfeld, James Wood and Howard Garb—find the Rorschach wanting in two crucial ways .... first, the test lacks what testing experts call "scoring reliability." Scoring reliability means than you get the same results no matter who is scoring the test. Psychotherapists look at more than 100 different variables when scoring an answer: Did the patient focus on stray splotches rather than the main blot, or the white spaces instead of the ink? Did the patient interpret the color? That kind of thing. The PSPI review found that therapists disagree on fully half of these variables, making the scores unreliable for diagnosis ...

Which may or may not be good news for some ...