# Rorschach Test - Science or Pseudo-science? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rorschach-test-science-or-pseudo-science/114281 **Category:** Factual Questions **Created:** [June 16, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rorschach-test-science-or-pseudo-science/114281 "2002-06-16T00:39:26Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### Author: ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar) #### Post date: [June 16, 2002, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rorschach-test-science-or-pseudo-science/114281/6 "2002-06-16T03:29:33Z")
In my intro Psychology text, it said that for what it was designed for, this test had a correlation coefficient of 0.33, which means that if you wanted to find the answer to a yes-no question, you’d get it right about 66% of the time. Of course, flipping a coin gets you the right answer 50% of the time. You wouldn’t want to say that it’s absolutely useless, but if you were trying to determine something, you’d probably use more than just this test. I think I should point out that, IMO, there are a few things in Psychology that the average person believes would be absolutely useless, but that have been shown through scientific studies not to be. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rorschach-test-science-or-pseudo-science/114281)._