Journal #43

It is a good thing the standardized tests for mental health do not exist, because most people probably would fail. For the test it would probably entail lots of questions about each person's personality, and then whoever graded the test would decide if that person is stable or not. Personally I think that I would pass the test and be declared sane, but I know that several members of my extended family would definitely not pass. The test would have questions where you would choose between two or more outcomes of a situations, or have questions where you have to compare people, or media. I think that it would be hard to actually have a test decide if you were insane because everyone has their own different personality quirks, and those would make it hard to have a fair and equal test across the board. Some of my friends would fail miserably in some areas of the insanity test, and pass with flying colors in the other. If our society based their jobs and positions in government on the outcomes of a test I would be really worried. You cannot get an accurate result on these tests because not everyone is able to take tests the same. Some people are super quick like me, and others take a really long time. If a test existed that fairly and equally decided your sanity level, I would probably take it because I would be quite curious to see where I fell in comparison to others. Hopefully I would pass, but I am not sure by how highly. I fell like I am quite a sane person, but I also do not know what the test would consider to be insane. I would also not want my family to be taken away if they did not pass the test, that would be an awful situation. I hope that in the future someone never invents this, because it would just cause suffering for everything.