There are always ways to 'fool' such a personality assessment, but the science and research that went into this assessment only works if the person honestly answers all questions. I have taken extensive coursework that included administering and scoring the MMPI-2. Kateperez from pasadena, tx on May 04, 2014: So when you answer questions about yourself, attempting to reveal yourself as mostly honest, trustworthy etc, but you view everyone else as dishonesty untrustworthy etc you are confessing an inconsistency and it triggers points on the lie scale as a result.

People have a tendency to think that everyone else thinks like they do etc. If you view people as mostly being dishonest, this is because you are dishonest, and you project how you are onto others etc. The MMPI asks a lot of questions like.'people are generally honest' in which how you answer really indicates how you view yourself. What determines if it is a lie or not is based upon how you answered the other questions related to how you would act. The question about whether or not you could be invisible is not an automatic lie if you select never. The MMPI scales generally have 25-70 items. The claim that a single response means anything is inaccurate. Anyways, I'm going into too much detail but basically the test said I was lying but since I wasn't lying, I'm really a psycho. I go to counseling for depression and a big problem in my life is feeling so different compared to others which I know is common with depression. Not once was I lying so I continued to look what my answers meant besides over reporting sympoms and I'm pretty sure I'm just 'divergent' again, for a lack of a better word. I went home immediately and found the test online and proceeded to answer the questions the same way so I could see for myself.

I questioned her until she finally spit out in plain english what that meant. When I took the test, my psychologist said because of the vlaidity score, the results weren't valid. I answered every single question honestly and my validitaty score was way off based to over reporting meaning I reported more problems than people with severe mental health problems including the worst of the worst like sociopaths. To this day I am very frightened by this test, for lack of a better word. I think that while test has its flaws and in some cases it can be wrong (which makes me dislike it), it can still yield fairly accurate results other times. Especially because some questions are really obscure (for instance, one of the very first questions is about whether or not you like mechanics magazines). The minute you start trying to think about why they're asking every single question and what answer they want, you'll start stressing and making mistakes. Don't overthink your answers too much.Don't lie to make yourself look better.The infrequency scale (for example, if different answers to the same question are worded slightly differently).The lie scale (questions like the movies question).There are also validity scales that attempt to detect if you are not telling the truth, such as: If you earn too many points on some scales, they may cross the normal threshold. Each answer gains you points on different scales, such as depression and paranoia.

The MMPI-2 works by asking you multiple choice questions.

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