The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2 (MMPI-2) is a complex personality test. It consists of 567 true/false questions that weigh in on different scales to determine your personality, as well as validity questions to ensure that you are not lying. This test is used in many different ways, some more controversial than others, including:
diagnosis and treatment of mental illness
criminal defense
custody battles
evaluating the usefulness of drug treatment programs
screening candidates for government jobs, including police officers and firemen.
However the MMPI-2 has many flaws and weaknesses that cause imbalance, making the test unfair and in some cases inaccurate.
The MMPI-2 Generalises
The main flaw in the MMPI 2 is that it groups in the really good people with the really bad people. For instance, one of the questions is:
If you could be invisible when you wanted, would you go to the movies?
I answered no, which the test counted as a lie, because apparently everybody in the world would scam a free movie if they could. These such generalisations are the flaw of the test, because a person’s personality simply cannot be measured using yes/no tick boxes.
There are several other examples of the MMPI-2 assuming too much based on a single question, but I have decided to not include any more questions in this article for ethical and copyright reasons. So I guess you’ll just have to take my word for it.
If somebody really wants to, they can find the MMPI-2 online for free and study it so they definitely pass
While researching the MMPI 2, I went on a mission to find the MMPI-2 test free online. I had little hope of being able to, since the MMPI-2 is only supposed to be administered by psychologists and other professionals. However, within an hour or two, I had managed to dig up from various sources on the internet:
a complete copy of the MMPI 2 test that automatically calculated your results
a guide for interpreting the results
a pdf document outlining the test and each of its measuring scales in great detail.
If I wanted to, I could have used that to study the test and get a perfect result. Anybody could, if they were determined enough. And you know what? It wouldn’t even take that long to get the gist of what the “right” answer is to pass the MMPI-2.
That is another problem I have with the MMPI 2 test. It can fail good people, but still wouldn’t be able to keep the major creepers out. I know there are those people out there. While on my quest to find the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2 online, I saw several of them on various forum websites. People who have used online resources to manipulate the MMPI-2 into obtaining custody of a child, or becoming a police officer. Isn’t that a scary thought? That the MMPI-2 will keep out police officers honest enough to not watch movies for free if they could, but the real scaries can still get in.
How Does the MMPI-2 Work?
Put simply, the MMPI-2 works by asking you multiple choice questions. Each answer gives you “points” on different scales, such as “depression” and “paranoia”. If you earn too many points on some scales, they may cross the normal threshhold.
There are also validity scales that attempt to detect if you are not telling the truth, such as “lie” (questions like the movies question) and “infrequency” (different answers to the same question worded slightly differently).
What should I do if I need to take the MMPI-2?don’t lie to make yourself look better… you will most likely be caught.
don’t over think your answers too much. The minute you start trying to think about why they’re asking every single question and what answer they want is when you’ll start stressing and making mistakes, because some questions are really obscure (for instance, one of the very first questions is about whether or not you like mechanics magazines).
just be honest and hope it works out. I think the test has its flaws and in cases it can be wrong (which makes me dislike it), however a lot of the time it can fairly accurate.
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