A new nonpatient sample for the rorschach comprehensive system: a progress report

Some concern about recently published nonpatient data, plus the fact that some records in the published sample of 600 nonpatients (Exner, 2001) were collected more than 20 years ago, prompted the initiation of a project to develop a new nonpatient sample. In this article, findings are presented for the first 175 participants tested in the new project. It is noted that the data from the new project are quite similar to those for the sample of 600. Results suggest that the similarities between the data sets supports the notion that the published sample is probably representative and provides a reasonable basis from which to identify response rates and the proportions of nonpatients expected to fall in, or outside of, established parameters for various ratios and other structural indexes.