The department's use of the two tests and its scoring method have been criticized recently by an attorney for an Oklahoma City minister who was arrested in September, 1980. "Given the state of the art, we (psychologists) are still unable to be as accurate as we would like. "It's a rough screening device and nothing more," Gilliland said. Kirby Gilliland, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Oklahoma, said errors occur in almost any situation in which psychological tests are administered. "You screen some in you shouldn't and screen some out you shouldn't." Dr. "We know that all tests have an error rate," he said. Those who don't are barred from application.īut despite predetermined cut-off points, Morris said it is difficult to accurately predict which applicants will make suitable police officers because both tests have a margin of error. Those who pass both continue through the application process, which requires a background check, a polygraph test and a final review. The tests, generally respected in psychology circles, are the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the Otis Test of Mental Abilities. In the first phase of a four-part application process, a prospective Oklahoma City police officer takes two tests designed to measure his psychological makeup. Those tests have recently come under increasing fire. Hoyt Morris, psychologist for the Oklahoma City Police Department, says of tests designed to determine whether a man who claims he wants to be a cop should indeed be allowed to wear a badge. "What's normal and abnormal it all gets blurred," Dr. Pearson 2020.The test results are clear-cut: A.
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