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- From: wendy@sundown.mil.wi.us
- Subject: Re: Self Appreciation (was: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?)
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- Lenore Levine (levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- > nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- >
- > > If an MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory --
- > > a standard psychological test) were to be administered
- > > to transexuals and non-transexuals, what differences would
- > > it reveal? Would the MMPI for biologically male transexuals
- > > be more similar to non-transexual biological females?
- >
- > >---peter
- >
- > An interesting question.
- >
- > However, I wonder how valid the MMPI is at all...
- >
- > My informal study of it, in the 70's, certainly led me to question its
- > validity -- especially in the face of cultural change.
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- Lenore,
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- I was given the MMPI-2, an updated version taking into account critisism's
- of the first version and cultural changes. At least that was what I was told.
-
- Wendy
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