BtZ42, p.21

[Ian Livingston]

I flunked the MMPI twice due to the 'lie factor' that weeds out people who
think too much about the questions and try to answer questions that require
nuance with T/F responses. The test administrator finally decided I think
too much and sent me off to college. I still pride myself on flunking the
personality test, though. I also think Tyrone and I would have been runnin'
buddies, for what that's worth.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:39 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

>
> If the narrator is reliable ( a questionable assumption), here are some
> sample questions:
>
> https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1109032158
>
> There seems to be a built-in lie assessment tool:
>
>
> http://psychcentral.com/lib/minnesota-multiphasic-personality-inventory-mmpi/
>
> Personally, statements such as "I loved my father" seem impossible to
> answer with a simple T/F.
>
> Drop-the-handkerchief? Could that still be on the test?
>
> LK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Kohut
> Sent: Apr 6, 2016 10:34 AM
> To: nick heindl
> Cc: pynchon -l
> Subject: Re: BtZ42, p.21
>
> When I felt innocently confident of my own self, only shadowily aware of
> all the forces that had shaped
> my personality, I remember feeling almost personally offended when I
> learned that I might have taken
> the MMPI. ......
> Fuck the test-givers, I'm me and not measurable this way. I wanted to be
> "free" of such
> controlling measurements---which, sea-changed and differently deeper, we
> will see in Slothrop, who
> is easy to identify with here.
>
> pull quote from wikipedia article:
> "The MMPI was designed as an adult measure of psychopathology
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathology> and personality structure
> in 1939."
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Multiphasic_Personality_Inventory
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 6:04 PM, nick heindl <nheindl13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Not really sure where to start, this is my first time hosting, and as a
>> long-time lurker it can be intimidating trying to keep up... so I am just
>> going to Dive Right In. Side note I am typing on my tablet which can be a
>> pain in the ass so if some of the formatting is off sorry in advance but in
>> the spirit of Pynchon it does seem to have a thing for capitalization...
>>
>> "This morning in his IN basket were orders sending him TDY some hospital
>> out in the East end. No explanation beyond an attached carbon copy of a
>> note to ACHTUNG requesting his reassignment " as part of the P.W.E. Testing
>> program."
>>
>> Testing? And by whom? Slothrop thinking of P.W.E. as more of that
>> Minnesota Multiphasic shit... Minnesota Multiphasic shit??
>>
>> Sorry if I'm missing or repeating anything I've been unable to keep up
>> with the discussion the past few days.
>>
>
> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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