Show Most of Us Queer According to the Ink Blot Test Indianapolis There Indianapolis There is scientific sd- sd confirmation of the widespread idea that most ofus of ofus ofus us are a n bit queer queer except except me and thee of course It has popped up In hi the queerest of places in ink blots biota that are made with a scientific purpose It is II quite a psychological game much like trying to see lee what you can an make of the flickering flames of an open fire on a cold winters winter's evening or w creatures are hiding In the clouds of a summers summer's day Your Imagination seems eem to bring to the surface things you unconsciously unconsciously subdued And It seems that trying to see pictures picture in smears mean of ink or floating clouds or flames flam maybe may maybe maybe be quite as al dangerous as aa telling your dreams to a Freudian Dr James Vaughn of ot the University University sity of Cincinnati gave the Rorschach ink blot test that's what it is II called after the psychologist who devised it to 43 patients in hi mental disease hospitals all of whom had paranoid tendencies and thought people were persecuting them when they were not He Ite also gave it to 62 52 college students Imagine his surprise when he be found that many of the apparently normal nornal students showed unusual character In hi the thee forms they saw laW for seeing such forms has haa been taken taken taken tak tak- en as u an indication of ot mental de de- One can hardly escape the conclusion conclusion con con- that Insanity is II a difference In hi degree and not in hi kind Dr Vaughn told the American Association Association tion for tor the Advancement of ot Science meeting The degree seems tant The Idea th that t a thing is bigger and better Just because it belongs to the Good Old U. U S. S A A. received support from tests by another psychologist Dr Heinz Ansbacher of Columbia university lIe He used postage postage post post- age stamps in his investigations After the possible influence ot of size shape color and other postage postage post post- age are stamp features had been eliminated eliminated eliminated Dr Ansbacher was able to prove that sheer acceptance of ot the stamp as a stamp of ones one's own country gives give I it an apparent size greater than that of the stamp of some lome other country It U the trifling matter of ot postage stamp size Ilze is I. affected in this way how fundamentally argues Dr Ansbacher Ansbacher Ans Ans- bacher is II our personality as a whole determined by the people and surroundings In which we live andare and andare andare are reared |