Anthropologists use these pictures as a kind of universal personality test

Without its inventor to keep it on track,the test he had methodically gathered so much data to support began to be used in all sorts of speculative ways.Researchers gave the test to Nazi war criminals,hoping to unlock the psychological roots of mass murder.Anthropologists showed the images to remote communities as a sort of universal personality test.Employers made prejudiced hiring decisions based on reductive decoding charts.As the test left clinics and entered popular culture its reputation among medical professionals plummeted,and the blots began to fall out of clinical use.