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    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    07/29/09

    In reply to Victorian Psychiatrists Upset at Wikipedia Exposing Their Voodoo Secrets
    I saw parakeets but couldn't explain the extra limbs so I'm switching my answer to Beavers.
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    07/29/09

    In reply to Victorian Psychiatrists Upset at Wikipedia Exposing Their Voodoo Secrets
    #7 is clearly two old lesbians rubbing rumps. Everyone can plainly see that.
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    07/29/09

    In reply to Victorian Psychiatrists Upset at Wikipedia Exposing Their Voodoo Secrets
    If you ever have a psychologist who would even consider using a Rorschach test, please vacate the premises immediately. What this means is that your psychologist hasn't read any psychological research in the past 20 years, in which countless studies have demonstrated the dire invalidity of this test. I do not want a psychologist who has ignored the past twenty years of psychological research, do you?
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    07/29/09

    In reply to Victorian Psychiatrists Upset at Wikipedia Exposing Their Voodoo Secrets
    #1-7: Bullshit
    #8-10: Multi-colored bullshit.
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    07/29/09

    In reply to Victorian Psychiatrists Upset at Wikipedia Exposing Their Voodoo Secrets
    Wow! Ouch! Anyone here feel injured by the community of mental health professionals or what? I myself do not use this test in my work but it is well normed, solidly developed, and easily defendable in court. Say what you will, but I have handed profiles of scores over to a professor who never saw the client and they have correctly noted things that took me weeks or months of therapy to get at.

    Diagnosis should never be made on the basis of a single test, including the golden MMPI-2 (which, by the way, measures differnt things than the Rorshach). For most of us diagnosis is not even necessary, but you can't tell your insurance company that. "Neurotic pseudo-intellectual" is not a diagnosis, nor is "hate my parents," "Stressed at work," or "going through a breakup." These are the things most of us get therapy for.

    Don't go thinking you're all special and mentally ill and stuff. I could tell you some stories about the responses I have gotten to this test from people who are actually mentally ill. Oh, wait, no I can't, because that would violate confidentiality.
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    07/29/09

    @ocpd301:
    The MMPI is also bullshit!
    Remember, it used the answers of Midwest farm boys as the norm.
    You know, guys who fucked sheep when they were lonely, that's thei MMPI's normal!
    And it also knocks down atheists & anyone who has what they consider to be "odd bowel habit".
    Like those of us with Crohn's Disease!
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    07/29/09

    @Greasy Thumb Guzik: You'te thinking of the original MMPI. It's since been re-normed.
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    07/29/09

    @ocpd301: Solidly developed? For decades there were five different scoring systems in use; a survey of practitioners in the '70s showed that nearly a quarter of respondents weren't using any scoring system at all, and just based their analyses on their own subjective interpretations. Of those who did score, 75% were using their own personalized integration of several different scoring systems.

    In the middle 70s, there was finally a systematic attempt to come up with a comprehensive system that could be normed, but it's had to be continually revised since then, and for several years the norms for that system (if people were even using it) were based on a serious error in data that wasn't discovered until '99. For the vast majority of its history, it's been ridiculously subjective and unscientific, and there is still widespread debate on what system for scoring is best even among people who consider it a worthwhile test. Never mind that it's never exhibited any long-term stability as a test for children, although it's often used on them.

    Please, really look into the history of this test. It's not what you appear to think it is.
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    07/29/09

    In reply to Victorian Psychiatrists Upset at Wikipedia Exposing Their Voodoo Secrets
    Mothman.
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    07/29/09

    In reply to Victorian Psychiatrists Upset at Wikipedia Exposing Their Voodoo Secrets
    Is this what you do all day when you are an analyst/therapist, or analrapist?
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    07/29/09

    In reply to Victorian Psychiatrists Upset at Wikipedia Exposing Their Voodoo Secrets
    The test isn't used for diagnosis. It's used to obtain an understanding of how a person (mis)perceives him or herself and others; how much effort they put into processing the environment around them; how they might be expected to attend to and modulate emotions; how they might be expected to solve problems, etc.

    It's particularly useful when a person demonstrates a tendency to impression manage on an objective psychological test, as most people are unsure of what a "correct" Rorschach response is and are, therefore, less able to present a certain impression.

    So much for that, I guess.
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    07/29/09

    @AccaliaOgodai: Evolve.
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    07/29/09

    @AccaliaOgodai: How does any of that answer the objection that the problem with the test lies in the subjectivity of the tester's interpretation?
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    07/29/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Doesn't the fact that there are set correct answers posted above suggest that the tester's interpretation is not subjective?
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    07/29/09

    @DahlELama: Doesn't the fact that that set of answers is one of several different sets (about all of which there is and has long been considerable controversy) suggest that maybe it's a pile of poo?
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