Rorschach Test™
Psychological test outlined in Hermann Rorschach's 1921 book Psychodiagnostik, released a year before the author's untimely death at the age of 37. The test involves the algorithmic analysis of patient responses to a series of seemingly random inkblots. The test is used extensively to verify schizophrenic pareidolia [1].
Throughout the 1960's Rorschach inkblot tests were used extensively to "diagnose" homosexuality, which was at that time considered a psychopathology. Prominent in such diagnosis were patient blot interpretations centering around genitalia (both male and female) [2] and female clothing. Following the accidental release of "internal" documentation (read: hack) from the NIPP (National Society of Psychology and Psychotherapy) in 1972 it was revealed that only by identifying all inkblots as either butterflies, moths, or, in once instance, the face of an owl, could the test be "aced" and the patient be considered of sound mind.
- ↑ Realating to apophenia, or the tendency for observers to incorrectly identify patterns of meaning and interconnection in randomized stimuli. Examples include faces in clouds, QAnon, the man in the moon, hidden messages in music played backwards, alien visitations, and the 23 Enigma.
- ↑ As evident by the samples below, a portion of the inkblots comprising the Rorschach test appear to be purposefully modelled after the female vulva or male taint, leading to speculation that the test was in fact at least partly a tool used to institutionalize homosexuals throughout the civil rights movement.