Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: 'I want to be me' Message-ID: <417@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-May-85 13:34:53 EDT Article-I.D.: ttidcc.417 Posted: Wed May 15 13:34:53 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 17-May-85 03:10:52 EDT References: <2148@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) Organization: The Cat Factory Lines: 31 Summary: In article <2148@decwrl.UUCP> daemon@decwrl.UUCP (The devil himself) writes: > These aren't the only examples. Starting with Freud's theories (formu- >lated in the Victorian Era, when women were overtly regarded as lesser creatures >than men), psychology has been the study of males by males with the conclusions >extrapolated to the entire human race. Actually, most of Freud's work was based on his experiences with neurotic (his diagnosis), Jewish, Viennese women -- a rather narrow sample of the human race at best. About the MMPI: A major criticism of it is that it was normed on a population of asylum inmates and is designed to detect pathology rather than health. The questions in it were chosen empirically by administering a much larger set of questions to the normative population and keeping only those questions which distinguished on the desired psychological dimensions. (i.e.: If 95% of depressed patients answered question X the same way then question X was kept as a depression detector. If the answers to question Y were mixed 50- 50 by everyone then question Y was thrown out). This is why some of them appear to be irrelevant or make little sense. Reading the graph of an MMPI score remains an art and the scores should never be taken out of context as the sole indicator of a person's mental condition. -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp TTI 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {philabs,randvax,trwrb,vortex}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe