Alas, I lost touch with her myself about eight years ago, and lately I've actually been sort of poking around to see if she still has an online presence under a new persona. Should you ever run into anyone who does know if she's still around online, I'd appreciate it if you would let me know.
Looking forward to your ideas on the IAT. I find it a fascinating methodology, but I'm just not sure what it means to someone like me. I grew up as the daughter of a psychologist who at one point in her career specialised in testing methodologies, and she often brought home new tests to try out on me as an informal subject, or maybe just for fun (imagine, if you will, having your first exposure to the MMPI as a pre-adolescent!)
So I probably have an acquired ability to figure out how tests work in general, and a tendency to get test-wise quickly. Although I've also, I think, learned to counter that to some extent by deliberately not thinking about test design when I'm doing a test - that must be possible, or all testing on psychologists when there is a legitimate need for some kind of assessment would be totally invalid, rather than just to be interpreted with caution.
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Date: 2007-08-24 10:42 pm (UTC)Alas, I lost touch with her myself about eight years ago, and lately I've actually been sort of poking around to see if she still has an online presence under a new persona. Should you ever run into anyone who does know if she's still around online, I'd appreciate it if you would let me know.
Looking forward to your ideas on the IAT. I find it a fascinating methodology, but I'm just not sure what it means to someone like me. I grew up as the daughter of a psychologist who at one point in her career specialised in testing methodologies, and she often brought home new tests to try out on me as an informal subject, or maybe just for fun (imagine, if you will, having your first exposure to the MMPI as a pre-adolescent!)
So I probably have an acquired ability to figure out how tests work in general, and a tendency to get test-wise quickly. Although I've also, I think, learned to counter that to some extent by deliberately not thinking about test design when I'm doing a test - that must be possible, or all testing on psychologists when there is a legitimate need for some kind of assessment would be totally invalid, rather than just to be interpreted with caution.
But that's something else that I wonder about.