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Sorry, but you completely fabricated the law enforcement application portion of your (yes, 10 year old) post.

The MMPI is not scored on individual answers to individual questions.  Each question is included in one of the validity scales.  For example, question 1, 15, 30, 45...every 15th question is on the L "lie" scale.

The key to the scales depends on the statistical evaluation of millions of test scores.  They end up with an average score, over the millions of tests, for each scale.  Your score for each scale is measured against the key.  Do you fall in the 1st Standard Deviation (or 2nd SD - it depends on what industry is conduction the test)?  If you do then 67% of all people tested fall within your range.  If you attempt to give the answer you think they are looking for on individual questions its very likely you will test outside the acceptable range and be rejected.

For law enforcement the scales are made up of the millions of people who have applied for law enforcement positions and taken the MMPI.  Because that experimental group is a sub-group of the general population its normal scale is somewhat different.  You have to test within the 1st SD of that sub-group.

BTW:  I'm using Standard Deviation loosely here.  It is a normal measurement technique used in statistics but an industry might choose some other method of scoring a validity scale.  But the general theory still holds - trying to outguess the test based on individual test answers will usually backfire.  Its the overall score, not answers to individual questions, that count.

I have never seen a vision. Why does the test say that I have deviant thinking!!

Question 180 was a typo (see image).

Is something wrong with the coding for question 427?

Seems to me rejection of a local PD applicant based upon MMPI results that doesn’t include a contextual interview is not even actually a valid MMPI result but is a conceivable shortcut, no matter how unfortunate.  I’m pretty sure rejection with a contextual interview doesn’t guarantee one is in the range of desirability for applicants at Quantico and Langley, but as no effective hiring employer wants to solicit undermining rebuttal to their objective decision not being told what scales concerned them (disqualified you) leaves you in the position of probably not imagining if they won’t take you perhaps the feds might but I’m here to tell you responses to the dozen or so psychopathy-scale questions seen as exclusionarily determinative at a bank with a perfectly clean background report indicate someone who won’t objectively evaluate the morality of orders presumed to be in their particular group (so here country of citizenship/nationality) interest because it’s a competitive and calculating personality type that will rationalize its disinterest in mutual prosperity by claiming since pursuit of such a strategy puts one at risk of being victimized by the other party’s potential insincerity beating them to it with one’s own corruption is thereby justified… so unless this individual is suffering burnout and beginning to question how beneficial following orders has been to themself they just assume orders in service of their own country are moral enough/more moral because that’s an extension of self interest and ultimately their only criteria.   

I’m not pointing all of that out in judgment nearly so much as I am Aware of the rejection by a lesser agency sort of counterintuitively implies one wouldn’t need the standard for a more authoritative one.  And also because that’s what “PSYCH1“ isn’t telling y’all while she’s getting her sick sadistic kick out of hiding behind a test calling out people exhibiting traits she’s pretending hasn’t made them (many of y’all) easy targets for projective displacement (she is displaying behavior consistent with other traits in the very same cluster and getting off on the perception of authority her greater working knowledge and familiarity with the instrument confers, but Pearson doesn’t need a spokesperson and outside of memed clichés  about being drawn to it to figure out personal problems if psychology did she wouldn’t be nearly as flattering a choice as she seems to think).

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Why is it not mandatory for the sexual offender assessment board to administer the MMPI-2 during there court ordered assessment to determine if a person truly has mental abnormality and personality disorders. The first thing the judge ask is did you evaluate the defendant, and the reply from the soab is we are not required to test and our assessment is done verbally. Your fate is determined by opinion and not by fact. I always thought that any case that comes before a court is based on fact not opinion. :-[