Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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Sep 11, 2026
Peter TragosHOST
That's how the defense was using it.
Peter TragosHOST
But if you were going to try to also use it to help prove her confessions, None of those doctors found that she was malingering based on the test that they gave the MMPI or whatever test that they gave to try and determine the malingering ability of somebody that they're talking to.
Peter TragosHOST
So, I mean, I think that that's kind of, you know, water under the bridge at this point for I think people looking at the facts and really trying to.
Peter TragosHOST
figure out what's going to happen next and how they look at this but so why do you think it became if you have any idea why do you think it became like an us versus them thing um for whatever sides were on whatever side they agreed and did you feel that way because i mean i'm sure your audience is like mine a lot of cross sections of society um diversity of thought and beliefs and political parties and whatever um did you feel like it was a monolith on one side versus the other
Ivette CardelliGUEST
So like assessment tools like personality testing.
Ivette CardelliGUEST
We have something called the MMPI, which is a Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory.
Ivette CardelliGUEST
And what it does, it's like a I don't know.
Ivette CardelliGUEST
Oh, my gosh, don't quote me on this 300 or 500 question test.
Kevin ReddingtonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Next question.
Kevin ReddingtonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
MMPI case scale focus.
Kevin ReddingtonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What does it mean sir? There was no indication whatsoever of any malingering Exaggeration or anything along those lines in that test.
Kevin ReddingtonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Would you agree with that?
MackSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If you're talking about the MMPI correct,
Kevin ReddingtonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
that's that's what we've been talking about and I don't
SullivanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
know.
John MatthiasHOST
Here's an example.
John MatthiasHOST
So the MMPI was talked about incessantly.
John MatthiasHOST
The MMPI is a very empirically based, rational, type instrument that assesses personality disorders.
John MatthiasHOST
Well, it assesses personality.
John MatthiasHOST
It assesses symptomology.
John MatthiasHOST
It gives me a different language rather than being just stuck with the DSM.
John MatthiasHOST
Now I can look, I can pull for some other traditions.
Lauren MatthiasHOST
And MMPI, more than that
Phil McGrawHOST
I can give you lots of tests to give to that person.
Phil McGrawHOST
Personality tests, give you a Rorschach inkblot, give you a MMPI or a Millen multi-actual.
Phil McGrawHOST
I can give you all these psychometric devices.
Phil McGrawHOST
But the best thing I can do... is get a good history of that person.
Bailey SarianHOST
In other words, NYPD, you know, so they give them this test.
Bailey SarianHOST
So according to Dr. Dietz, this assessment, MMPI situation, it showed that there was really nothing like psychologically wrong with Bozo Gill.
Bailey SarianHOST
And he's like, that's not really something I run into very much.
Bailey SarianHOST
He's like, usually there's something off.
Peter ShamshiriHOST
Right.
Michael HobbesHOST
There's the MMPI, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
Michael HobbesHOST
You have the Hum-Wadsworth scale, which ... measured personality along, like, multiple dimensions, including hysteriod, manic, depressive, autistic, paranoid-
Peter ShamshiriHOST
[laughs]
Michael HobbesHOST
[laughs]
Peter ShamshiriHOST
Then it works.
Peter ShamshiriHOST
Unease about the increasingly prevalent use of personality tests, like the MMPI, had been growing for more than a decade.
Peter ShamshiriHOST
In 1956's The Organization Man, William Whyte sounded a warning about the stifling conformity such tests impose on American executives.
Andrew LeedsHOST
Structured diagnostic interviews assessed each patient's disorders.
Andrew LeedsHOST
Standard instruments included the YBOX, the Beck Anxiety Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Dissociative Experiences Scale, and in two cases, the MMPI.
Andrew LeedsHOST
Assessments occurred before and after treatment, and in the case of Anna, at three and six-month follow-up.
Andrew LeedsHOST
The primary finding was a clinically meaningful decrease in Y-box scale scores in all three cases.
Jenny LynnHOST
Well, they also
JenHOST
use a really, really antiquated model called the MMPI and the MMPI-2 usually.
JenHOST
I'm sure they don't always.
JenHOST
But they actually do nothing to test your ability to parent.
Dave BrodbeckHOST
It's a ridiculous thing.
Dave BrodbeckHOST
They can't fill out the MMPI.
Dave BrodbeckHOST
No.
Jessica BodilyGUEST
I think about it more as like tendencies.
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