# Today's Google Doodle: Rorschach Test **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 8, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-rorschach-test/673417 "2013-11-08T12:53:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-rorschach-test/673417/1 "2013-11-08T12:53:22Z")
When you click it, the pattern changes. And they encourage you to send it in > **[Google](https://www.google.com/)** > > Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-rorschach-test/673417/2 "2013-11-08T12:59:41Z")
If you keep clicking some amusing pictures show up. Or I’m going crazy. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-rorschach-test/673417/3 "2013-11-08T13:06:23Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > If you keep clicking some amusing pictures show up. Or I’m going crazy. [Viennese Accent]So tell me, what do these make you think of your mother?[/Viennese Accent] I like the Gnomes with Flags and the T. Rexes balancing on Balls As far as I can see, the “real” Rorschach images don’t come up, and some of the blots are just boring space-filling blocks. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-rorschach-test/673417/4 "2013-11-08T13:19:49Z")
Kitty and Butterfly is cute, too. The Canonical Rorschach tests are on the internet, and you can most easily find them in the Wikipedia article: > **[Rorschach test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test)** > > The Rorschach test is a projective psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning. It has been employed to detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. The test is named after its creator, Swi I didn’t have any idea what they looked like until I read about them in William Poundstone’s **Big Secrets** , which gave outlines of the blots. I first learned there that some of the blots are multicolored, but I never saw them until I looked the blots up online. You also can’t really appreciate the gradations and gradual tailing off of the blots from Poundstone’s tracings – the blots aren’t of uniform density, and some lack hard edges. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-rorschach-test/673417/5 "2013-11-08T14:31:14Z")
Gnomes! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-rorschach-test/673417/6 "2013-11-08T14:51:29Z")
The dinosaurs walking on beach balls is cute. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-rorschach-test/673417/7 "2013-11-08T16:06:34Z")
Hrmm. ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-rorschach-test/673417/8 "2013-11-08T17:49:13Z")
I could see the gnomes turn into a creepy doll head, like that face/vase kind of thing, but the dinosaurs were just dinosaurs. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-rorschach-test/673417/9 "2013-11-08T18:04:39Z")
Ya, but what’s all this got to do with that guy with the funny laugh in “Welcome Back Kotter?” ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-rorschach-test/673417/10 "2013-11-08T18:52:32Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > … [www.google.com](http://www.google.com) … FWIW, I do not get the Rorschach test with this URL. Nor with google.co.th (I live in Thailand). I _do_ get it with [google.co.uk](http://google.co.uk) and with [google.fr](http://google.fr) . ETA: I do click to Google a dozen times a day. I guess I’ve been missing a lot of fun. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-rorschach-test/673417/11 "2013-11-08T19:26:51Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > ETA: I do click to Google a dozen times a day. I guess I’ve been missing a lot of fun. ☹ You can click [here](http://www.google.com/doodles/finder/2013/All%20doodles) to see what you’ve been missing (notice that many doodles indicate a specific country or region where they appear). ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-rorschach-test/673417/12 "2013-11-08T20:43:26Z")
Tom Servo! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-rorschach-test/673417/13 "2013-11-08T23:27:03Z")
Anyone else see Groucho’s hair and eyebrows?