Psychology is not a science.
Those guys would take issue with that.
But, a lot of it is subjective, even though they've gone to great lengths to make testing and diagnostic criteria more objective, it's still has a lot to do with interpretation.
The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) tries hard to set objective criteria for a diagnosis.
But, your point well taken, it's not Physics.
DF
Lots of open ended questions that are open to interpretation which is probably the point.
My sons mom and I went through a bitter breakup. Allegations went back and fourth, I believe that’s the test that we both took.
I remember one question being something like “you’re waking past a tall building and someone drops a brick that nearly hits you, how would you respond?” No context to how they dropped it. Was it a careless accident, a bizarre accident out of the persons control, or intentional? Just “how would you respond” It was multiple choice only, so without context circling an answer was a pure guess as to how or why it happened and none were how I would have responded in real life.
It was all based on going up and confronting the person that dropped the brick. In the real world I would have looked up and probably said WTF?! The person that dropped it would have had an oh sh1t that was an accident look on their face, said that it was an accident and that would have been it. I’d go about my day to wherever I was walking to. That wasn’t a choice on the test.
I passed with a clean bill of mental health… probably an indictment on the test😂
