Projective test, in psychology, examination that commonly employs ambiguous stimuli, notably inkblots (Rorschach Test) and enigmatic pictures (Thematic Apperception Test) to evoke responses that may reveal facets of the subject's personality by projection of internal attitudes, traits, and behaviour patterns upon the external stimuli.
One Democratic activist has called him "a kind of human Rorschach test".
Other districts look like donuts, embryos or Rorschach tests.But the champion gerrymandering comes from Illinois.
It is a national Rorschach test hence the silent crescendo; hence the lack of an argument; hence the column with which it is impossible to disagree.
The political establishment united behind Lisbon, filling the airwaves with talking-points.Some voters who did understand the main provisions of Lisbon treated it like a Rorschach inkblot, using the referendum to vent their broader frustrations about Europe, Ireland and how they were ruled.
But the Rorschach test, in which elements of someone's personality can be deduced, its proponents claim, by his description of what he sees in a series of inkblots, has been used for 90 years, and is still going strong.The original test was devised by Hermann Rorschach, a Swiss psychiatrist, in 1921.
And responses in which a viewer synthesises several elements in an inkblot to show how they are interrelated do seem to be correlated with intellect; such responses are found most often in people who also score highly on an unrelated psychological assessment, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.Dr Meyer disposes, too, of one perennial criticism of the Rorschach test that it is culture-dependent.
On July 20th, liberals drew comfort from an unaccustomed source, when Ann Coulter, an intemperate right-wing commentator, condemned Mr Roberts as a "Rorschach blot" whose conservatism was impossible to discern.
"But the signal would be bigger from Obama, because he is black .It is striking that many Europeans skate over the political views of Mrs Clinton and Mr Obama and instead treat their fight as a simple Rorschach test of the health of the American dream.
But he thinks the idea needs to be recalibrated.Some Rorschach diagnoses do seem to stand up, though.
Indeed, Europe's populist successes often function as a kind of Rorschach test for observers.
