Assess thyself

[CarpCharacin]

Chinese.

Come on, this is easy stuff
Like I said, the T scores have a mean score of 50. So a score of 60 would be +1 standard deviation above the mean, 70 would be +2, and so on.
Here is the image from the wikipedia article that shows the percentages of the population which fall within certain z-scores.

So +2σ would be a T-score of 70, like I said.

 

[BantyChooks]

My issue with these tests is that there's no sense of scale. I never know what an appropriate answer is because I don't know what "average'' is.

 

[CarpCharacin]

My issue with these tests is that there's no sense of scale. I never know what an appropriate answer is because I don't know what "average'' is.

There is a sense of scale, T-scores

 

[Kiki]

Come on, this is easy stuff
Like I said, the T scores have a mean score of 50. So a score of 60 would be +1 standard deviation above the mean, 70 would be +2, and so on.
Here is the image from the wikipedia article that shows the percentages of the population which fall within certain z-scores.
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So +2σ would be a T-score of 70, like I said.

Did I pass or fail?

 

[BantyChooks]

There is a sense of scale, T-scores

No, a scale on the questions. They're relative.

 

[CarpCharacin]

Did I pass or fail?

I don't think it's a "pass or fail" test. I don't totally know how to interpret the validity scales, which are there to detect if you are BSing your way through the test. It also shows that you have above average imperturbability.

No, a scale on the questions. They're relative.

For the test to be accurate, people need to answer what is true for them. If they mentioned while taking the test whether certain answers were "normal" or not, it would render the test ineffective. The MMPI is used for a lot of things, like determining which parent should get custody of a child in a custody dispute, and for screening candidates to become police officers. So it is designed to detect those suffering from personality pathologies, and if it made the "normal" answers clear, it'd allow people to fake their way through the test.

 

[Kiki]

imperturbability

What does this mean?

 

[BantyChooks]

I don't think it's a "pass or fail" test. I don't totally know how to interpret the validity scales, which are there to detect if you are BSing your way through the test. It also shows that you have above average imperturbability.

For the test to be accurate, people need to answer what is true for them. If they mentioned while taking the test whether certain answers were "normal" or not, it would render the test ineffective. The MMPI is used for a lot of things, like determining which parent should get custody of a child in a custody dispute, and for screening candidates to become police officers. So it is designed to detect those suffering from personality pathologies, and if it made the "normal" answers clear, it'd allow people to fake their way through the test.

I don't mean "normal", I mean a way with which to relate one's personal life filled to a broad-ended question, though I do see the merit to what you're saying.

 

[Kiki]

I don't think it's a "pass or fail" test. I don't totally know how to interpret the validity scales, which are there to detect if you are BSing your way through the test. It also shows that you have above average imperturbability.

For the test to be accurate, people need to answer what is true for them. If they mentioned while taking the test whether certain answers were "normal" or not, it would render the test ineffective. The MMPI is used for a lot of things, like determining which parent should get custody of a child in a custody dispute, and for screening candidates to become police officers. So it is designed to detect those suffering from personality pathologies, and if it made the "normal" answers clear, it'd allow people to fake their way through the test.

I might have to retake it.

 

[CarpCharacin]

The MMPI also yields "overall profiles" which are supposed to be more descriptive of someone overall, and they can be derived from the manual, but I haven't figured out how to derive them yet. I had a friend who knew how to derive them, and this was mine:

I might have to retake it.

Why? The interpretation manual is here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/test-div...ides/interpretation-of-mmpi-2-clinical-scales

I don't mean "normal", I mean a way with which to relate one's personal life filled to a broad-ended question, though I do see the merit to what you're saying.

Ah, yes, some of the questions are a bit ambiguous. A lot of the questions were created in the 1940s and 50s.