Faustine's paranoia index

[Tim May]

On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 02:38 PM, faustine. at hushmail.com wrote:
>>> Have you discussed this with your psychiatrist/handlers?
>
> Not on your life, baby. But given that I know the L, F, Pd and Pa 
> scales of the
> Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory like the back of my hand, 
> it's
> something of a moot point. A little recommended reading you might find
> relevant: Cleckley, Hervey (1903-1984): The Mask of Sanity, Fifth 
> Edition, 1988.
>

Anybody who bothers with this kind of stuff needs to see a psychiatrist.

(My university encouraged all students to take the MMPI. I saw the 
"recommended careers" it listed for me and decided it was as I 
suspected, from the types of questions, just plain voodoo bullshit. That 
was the last such test I took, more than 30 years ago.)


--Tim May
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a 
monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also 
into you." -- Nietzsche