{"id":549,"date":"2006-10-07T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T13:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2006-10-07T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T13:37:07","slug":"rorschach-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Rorschach tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img id=\"image547\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/10\/dancewithme.jpg\" alt=\"dancewithme.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Rorschach test is a psychological test for evaluating the psyche of a person.<br \/>\nPsychologists use <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rorschach_test\">Rorschach tests<\/a> in order to try to examine the personality characteristics and emotional functioning of their patients. According to wikipedia its originator psychologist Rorschach considered his test to be a test of &#8220;perception and apperception&#8221; rather than imagination. The test consists of ten cards (held in secret) which contain inkblot images, like this one from wikipedia:<\/p>\n<table style=\"float:left; width:260px;\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img id=\"image548\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/10\/200px-Inkblot.gif\" alt=\"200px-Inkblot.gif\"  style=\"padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px;\"\/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">A solid tone rendering of the first of ten cards in the Rorschach inkblot test. <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t yet seen yet the other nine Rorschach test images (:-)) but I assume that they are all presumably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=133\">mirrorimages<\/a> of real inkblots like the one to the left.<br \/>\nAnd assuming that the psychological relevance of this test is connected to the mirrorimage property of the blots I wonder wether such a test would also work with moving inkblots, who have already famous counterparts in music clips, such as in queen&#8217;s &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=2734287104054737756\">bohemian rhapsody<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnarlsbarkley.com\/downloads.php\">gnarls bareley&#8217;s crazy<\/a>. However its fairly easy to do a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DIY\">DIY<\/a>-rorschach-video-test &#8211; just cut your videoimage in the middle and mirror it. <\/p>\n<p>This can have to astonishing results as can be seen at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fOdlQhG2D3o\">funny visual mashup<\/a> of a clip from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ekQZPozjCX8\">Godard&#8217;s &#8220;Bande \u00e0 Part&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}