From the April 2005 Scientific American Mind | 4 comments
For the scoring of any variable to be considered highly reliable, two different assessors should be very likely to produce similar ratings when examining any given person's responses. Recent investigations demonstrate, however, that many of the Rorschach scores weighted heavily by clinicians display unsatisfactory agreement. As a consequence, clinicians may often arrive at quite different interpretations of people's responses.
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