D IAGNOSTIC psychological testing often has been described as an empirical art that suffers from the lack of a solid theoretical foundation. In one sense, the criticism is just, for no systematic and comprehensive theory underlies all that psychometric testing tries to accomplish as an aid to psychiatric diagnosis. Yet in another sense, psychological testing does rest upon certain assumptions. Every use that is made of a psychometric score implies that postulates are held concerning the nature of the test and concerning the human behavior that it samples. The trouble is that many such assumptions are unformulated and implicit. If they were explicit, perhaps they would not stand the light of critical scrutiny or of experimental study. It may be a constructive step to state a few of the more obvious assumptions openly, and allow them to be examined.
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