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Originally Posted by yagr
Well, to be completely accurate, I have received a diagnosis from my therapist but social security disability considers a diagnosis from a therapist to be an opinion, rather than a bona fide diagnosis. For that, one needs a psychologist. So, I have been diagnosed by my therapist with Asperger's and dissociative identity disorder (she's not the first therapist either) but those two diagnosis's create their own problems with test taking. For instance:
As a function of the Asperger's, I am often confused when a question that almost everyone else has no problem answering is too vague for me, or it's been asked sloppily. i.e. "I seem to be about as capable and smart as most others around me." I have a measured IQ of 172. I am not 'about as capable or smart', I am 'more capable or smart'. So do I mark 'true' or 'false'? I tend to go with false. That capable or smart clearly doesn't extend to my ability to take tests or answer simple questions but if you have a quantum physics question - I am your guy!
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I wonder if we can look on this as a QM question, then. I'm just finishing up taking a continuing ed. class (for the second time, didn't get it the first) taught by a retired theoretical physicist and think I get it -- more or less. Also think the QM way of looking the world could be useful to psychology. But that's another thread.
To your situation, then. . . You could use a diagnosis but the measuring instruments aren't capable of providing it. They (or the humans using them) assume that the measuring instruments can -- you showed the guy that was wrong, falsified his theory, and he was pissed, not interested. A very non-scientific, non-Asperger (and non-me, too, even though I don't have Asperger's) response.
The measuring instruments are part and parcel of a social institution that requires them in order to qualify you for disability benefits. The measuring instruments are "entangled" with the social institution. Probably no way to disentangle that, given the large macrosopic size and number of people and other factors in that system.
Except, if perhaps?, you could find a licensed psychologist at a university or somewhere who might actually be interested in people and the benefits and limitations of psychometrics? Someone whom you can interest and connect (entangle somewhat?) with, and who can then provide a more reliable measurement of some sort? Anybody whose work you find decent in any research you have done on psychometrics?