Practice question · True or false
Projective tests remain in use because their reliability and validity are well established.
Hints
- What is the actual argument for them?
- Ambiguity is hard to fake; that is not the same as valid.
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False
Why
False. Their psychometric properties are weak; the argument made for them is that an ambiguous stimulus is harder to fake than a self-report item that announces what it measures. The rebuttal is that whatever survives faking is not measuring much either.
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