Rorschach test is like an X-ray picture

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An example of an analogy using a science concept as an analogue:

"[The Rorschach test] does not reveal a behaviour picture, but rather shows – like an X-ray picture – the underlying structure which makes behaviour understandable".

Bruno Klopfer

Quoted in: Searls, D. (2017). The Inkblots. Hermann Rorschach, his iconic test & the power of seeing. Simon & Schuster.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.