The comments in response to our article on human figure drawings (HFDs) (Motta, Little, & Tobin, this issue) ranged from balanced and supportive to biased and attacking. As we had expected, the self-aggrandizing critiques of Naglieri, Bardos, and to a lesser extent, Holtzman, centered more around issues of pet articles that were not included in our paper rather than a substantive presentation of data in support of HFDs. Their thinly veiled tactic of impugning our scholarliness was used to hide one glaringly obvious point, that is, there is little to no compelling data to support the use of HFDs in psychological assessment. The continued use of these invalid assessment devices may represent a violation of the APA Code of Ethics, as shown below.Naglieri and Bardos go on to criticize the editorial policy of this journal even though the editor showed unquestioned fairness in soliciting responses (which were not themselves reviewed) from those who, a priori, were expected to be critical of what we wrote. In our opinion, the editor shows characteristics which are completely lacking in Naglieri et al.'s writing, namely objectivity and balance.Naglieri, Bardos, and Holtzman's critiques show little regard for, or understanding of the value of science. They substitute ad hominem attacks for data and in doing so, have succeeded in hoisting themselves on their own petards of a lack of scholarliness. In fact, one study which they all seem to have conveniently overlooked was authored by one of the contributors to this series (cited in Knoff, this issue). After reviewing over 100 studies on drawings, Knoff found little empirical support for their continued use. In another unscholarly "oversight," Naglieri crows about a study showing a .47 correlation between the Draw-A-Person Quantitative Scoring System
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