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Old Dec 05, 2008, 11:11 PM
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Well... Since there seems to be some serious research going into its development you would really think that they wouldn't want to cheapen it by giving it a popular name that seems to reduce it to about the level of the tests you find in your average self help book...

'Insane' is indeed a technical term - in law, as GG said. The test isn't measuring sanity / insanity in the legal sense and I'm jolly surprised that the makers didn't think of that and realize that it is indeed a pretty severe case of false advertising... You wouldn't want a person thinking that a high score would absolve them of a crime, would you now?

I find the name puzzling as well.

I also find the whole thing puzzling, though, to tell you the honest truth.

A test that basically validates peoples conscious or unconscious beliefs about their situation. What is the point, exactly? I simply don't understand... Self diagnostics... Wouldn't work so well for neurology, wouldn't work so well for oncology, wouldn't work so well for cognitive neuropsychology... I'm sure the doctors / clinical psychologists out there are just stoked about their patients coming along with their self diagnostics all complete.
Thanks for this!
Simcha