Projective personality tests can be differentiated from objective personality tests on purely logical and technical grounds. Objective personality tests are derived from and are therefore dependent upon a discrete set of items with an a priori rationale, while projective techniques are superordinate to item construction and any scoring is imposed a posteriori. Further, projective techniques provide more response latitude, although this characteristic lies on a continuum.
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