Controversy Surrounding Exner's Norms for the Comprehensive System for the Rorschach

question 71

Multiple Choice

Controversy surrounding Exner's norms for the Comprehensive System for the Rorschach stemmed from the claim that

• A) Exner took great liberties when developing the norms making their validity questionable.
• B) the graduate students collecting the data were poorly trained.
• C) the normative sample from Detroit was not representative.
• D) the norms over-pathologized nonclinical groups.

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