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You’ve probably heard of the Rorschach, seen some striking inkblots on billboards or TV, and read stories calling just about anything under the sun “a Rorschach test”: with no right or wrong answers, no true or false, your reaction mattering more than the thing itself. If you’re like I was, you assumed the Rorschach was in the dustbin of ham-fisted midcentury psychology, along with truth serum and Woody Allen’s psychoanalysts. I certainly didn’t know where the test comes from, that it really works, and that it is still widely used today....