Show most of Us queer according to the ink blot test thero there is scientific confirmation of the widespread iden idea that most of us are a bit queer except me and thee of course it has popped up in the queerest of places in ink blots that aro are mada made with a scientific purpose it Is quite a psychological game much me like trying to seo see what you can call make of the flickering names flames of an open bra on a cold winters evening or aitra witra creatures are hiding in the tha clouds 0 of f a summers day your imagination seems to bring to the surface things you unconsciously ly subdued and it seems that trying to see pictures in smears of 0 ink or floating clouds or flames may bo be quits quite as dangerous as telling your dramins to a freudian dr james vaughn ot of the university of cincinnati gave the rorschach ink blot test what it Is called otter after tho the psychologist w who devised it to 43 patients in mental disease hospitals all of whom had paranoid tendencies and thought people were persecuting them when they were not ile he also gave it to 62 52 college students imagine his surprise when ho he found that many of the apparently normal students showed unusual character in the tha forms they saw for seeing such forms has been taka en an as an indication of mental derangement ran gement 1 one can hardly escape tho the conclusion that insanity Is a difference in degree and not in kind dr vaughn told the tha american association for the advancement of science meeting the degree seems important 11 the idea that a thing Is bigger and better just because it belongs to the good old U S A received support from tests by another psychologist choI ch dr heinz ansbacher of columbia university he used postage stamps in his investigations after the possible influence of size shape color and other post age stamp features had been eliminated dr ansbacher was able to prove that sheer acceptance of the stamp as a stamp of ones own country gives it an apparent size greater than that of the stamp of some other country if the trifling matter of postage stamp size is affected in two way how fundamentally argues dr ans bacher is our personality as a whole determined by the people and surroundings in which sealve we live and are reared |