Why isn’t there a Rorschach test for terrorism?

We should stop funding predictive efforts and put money into determining—and verifying—behavioural and ideological indicators of violent radicalization.

The Rorschach test is a psychological test in which the person's perception of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

Opinion

BY PHIL GURSKI

May 1, 2017

OTTAWA—You all know what a Rorschach ink blot test is. Invented back in 1917 by a Swiss psychiatrist working on his own in an asylum, the test has been used for decades and has also been the butt of jokes for almost as long. In the movie What About Bob, hypochondriac Bill Murray relates ...

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