DWP’s straw-grasping and contortions prove fake psych ‘test’ guilt

 

Regular visitors to this blog [The SKWAWKBOX Blog] (and any Guardian reader) will be familiar with the fake psychometric ‘test’ the DWP and Cabinet Office were inflicting on unemployed people under threat of benefit sanction.

This ‘test’, devised by a US ‘torture guru’, which asked a series of disturbing questions resulting in meaningless answers, was forced on jobseekers without any of the safeguards required of proper psychological experiments, and has resulted in complaints from many qualified psychologists. An investigation into the DWP’s leading psychologist has been initiated by the care professions’ oversight body.

Reblogged from DWP’s straw-grasping and contortions prove fake psych ‘test’ guilt. (1,118 words)