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Show First you have to know whom the test is comparing you to. To make a scientifically accurate test the questions must first be given to a sample population. Then based on the results, the test writers can determine what is an average response. Without knowing the characteristics of the initial sample, it is impossible to determine if the analysis is accurate. “In order for you to (score) high on something, there has to be an average, so they had ORDER LINE: 800.316.1138 FAX: 310/316.1138 to have collected a bunch of information from a group of people saying something is average. Maybe their average person is a psychopath. Maybe their average is someone who is so far apart from what your life is like that of course you would look different,” Rodriguez explained. She said she would never give a test unless she knew whom the test was based on and most tests have an accompanying handbook to explain to evaluators how to interpret the P.O. BOX 280070 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94128 test. Secondly, the test must be reliable; in other words it must be consistent over time. Lastly, the test has to be valid meaning it accurately performs what it set out to do; in this case, does it accurately determine a person's personality? Although she couldn't determine if the test was scientific, Rodriguez said she found a _ WWW.BROWNTROUT.COM WE ARE THE LARGEST PRODUCERS OF CALENDARS IN THE WORLD... © glaring problem with the statements proclaiming, “Scientology can help you with this.” She said, if she, for example, replaced the word Scientology with “Christina Rodriguez” can help you with this, she would lose her job, her licenses and could even be charged with fraud. For her, these statements constitute coercion. In her field, it is highly unethical to give a personality test as a public service and then attempt to sell a product or a process to help improve those test scores. “It would be unethical for me because I'm accountable to a higher authority. AVAILABLE AT BACK OF BEYOND BOOKS IN-MOAB It might be unethical for them, but if they're not accountable to be ethical then it doesn't translate to anything. . Rodriguez. You can't force someone to be ethical, if they choose not to be,” said Even with the little information Rodriguez had, she was able to determine several flaws with the Scientologist's trademarked test. “It's never this extreme especially with a lot of judgmental words. It's overly harsh especially when it ends with Scientology can help you with this,” Rodriguez said. Matter of Perspective I returned to the Scientologists to ask them about the test ‘and the evaluator's instructions. I took the test again. The graph looked about the same, my personality traits described with a Horoscope-like accuracy were equally dismal. I asked Gale if she knew if the test was scientific. She didn't. If they couldn't prove this, then, in my mind, the test was no more than a scientifically unreliable recruiting tool. She said she never questioned it because it usually “rings so true for people.” She said the “Oxford Capacity Analysis” was written in the 1950s. The lofty title didn’t impress me too much. I could write a test and call it the Princeton Psychological Analyzer, but that doesn't mean Princeton University had anything to do with it. She got sick of my questions and told me to call the head of public relations. Lora Mengucci, the director of special affairs for the Utah Church of Scientology. didn’t know anything about the test, but she would start looking. She had never the generic script instructions. Less than a week later, we spoke again. This time she said she had looked evaluator's instructions and had a different take on it. “It is just if the person is undecided. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? ..and how does it relate to TIme I called No, she heard of and Browntrout Calendars? over the .. ime, a maniac scattering dust, and Life, a Fury slinging flame. Some people say, ‘Great sign me up’, others don't. ‘Hanging on ropes’ is just a phrase, if they're undecided,” said Mengucci. Merriam Webster may beg to differ, but it seemed simple enough, so why didn’t they just say that? Then she shot down my theory that everyone scores as poorly as Darrick and I did. She said many people, including herself, scored very high when she took the test the first time. So, maybe just my friends and I suffer from these unbearable traits. She said she was still searching for the research on the test. A week after I first talked to her, she couldn't find any answers to the few simple criteria needed prove the test had ANY scientific merit. I presume she is still looking. But for all my irresponsibility, I couldn't wait because I had a deadline to meet. If any Scientologists are reading this, they're probably thinking I wrote this article because I can't handle the truth. 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