I'm not sure how those two statements are even congruent, but then again I don't like to go to the movies when I'm invisible so we already know how messed up I am. And by the way, I'm not just a sociopath, but apparently a 'deeply religious' one. I suppose that's why I tested as a sociopath on this test. Yeah, my gut instinct to that question was no because I assumed it was asking a preference question - similar to the 'do you like mechanics magazines'. 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.

Wow Jason, excellent explanation of the how the test works. Joanna from Wilseyville on August 15, 2014: 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. To me it's like flipping a coin to see if someone can get a job or not. Answering a question saying you wouldn't do something wrong if you knew you wouldn't get caught isn't lying if you honestly wouldn't. The whole thing seems very subjective, generalized and ridiculous to me. Once passing, once being screened for secondary interview, and once passing.

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