Thursday, July 30, 2009

A Rorschach Cheat Sheet on Wikipedia? +Link

SHOOT: The controversy is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test Check it out. You might need it if you're going to have your mental health assessed. [We all might.]
clipped from www.nytimes.com

Trudi Finger, a spokeswoman for Hogrefe & Huber Publishing, the German company that bought an early publisher of Hermann Rorschach’s book, said in an e-mail message last week: “We are assessing legal steps against Wikimedia,” referring to the foundation that runs the Wikipedia sites.

“It is therefore unbelievably reckless and even cynical of Wikipedia,” she said, “to on one hand point out the concerns and dangers voiced by recognized scientists and important professional associations and on the other hand — in the same article — publish the test material along with supposedly ‘expected responses.’ ”

Mike Godwin, the general counsel at Wikimedia, hardly sounded concerned, saying he “had to laugh a bit” at the legal and ethical arguments made in the statement from Hogrefe.

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