LACK OF KNOW-HOW ABOUT OCA TEST NEEDS REMEDY

Talking or writing about the OCA test without including its history is not only senseless, it also might hint lack of scientific thinking by those who accuse it to be “not based on scientific grounds”.  If one wants to make a proper analysis on any subject, one better view all of its aspects. The logics of thinking demand that one takes such an approach.

There is another aspect here. The OCA is being used in the Church of Scientology and happily so. It makes our work that much easier. I do not know about the results with other tests used but our psychometric test (“psyche” is Greek for spirit or soul, “metric” Greek for measure) gives a complete picture of any progress made by any person.

The OCA was derived from the JTA test, a psychology test.

So why the criticism on the OCA comes repeadedly out of the psychology/psychiatry corner is an interesting question to answer.

We are happy with the OCA. it has helped us a lot and is a great tool in better understanding of one’s fellow man.

WHY SHOOT YOURSELF IN THE FOOT ABOUT THE OCA TEST?

R. Christopher Barden, Ph.D., Child and Adult Clinical and Research Psychology, Universities of Minnesota and Berkley; former consulting Editorial Board Member of the Developmental Psychology Journal, American Psychological Association as well as the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry, says about the OCA test:

1. The OCA test was developed from the Johnson Temperament Analysis Test, a well-known, formal psychology test, respected and a widely-used psychological test. The JTA had been subjected to rigorous review procedures common to the psychological testing industry and therefore based on scientific research.

2.As a scientific test in the stream of scientific criticism and the world of business, updated versions of the JTA are apparently still in use and still for sale to professionals and councelors.

3.The OCA does measure attitudes, behaviour and personality tendencies.

4.Careful reading of the kind of questions used in the OCA demonstrates that the test CERTAINLY DOES HAVE OBVIOUS SCIENTIFIC VALUE(it is difficult to conceive of how a modification of a standardized test could have “zero” scientific value).

Based on all this one wonders why people are questioning the scientific value of the OCA test. The answer is already there. By questioning they question a test (JTA test) which has received full scientific accreditation by those who have been shaping up psychological testing and created their own JTA therewith. Why shoot yourself in the foot?

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