A critic of personality inventories says, "These tests have no way of detecting faking or defensiveness in the individuals who take them. Worse, they never include norms for responses of people from different cultural groups." Which response to these criticisms is accurate?
A) The MMPI-2 has both of the features the critic says are absent.
B) The critic is correct about the problem of faking but not about norms from different cultures.
C) The critic is confusing the problems of projective tests with those of inventories.
D) Current research supports what the critic is saying.

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The MMPI-2 includes scales designed to detect faking or defensiveness and also provides norms for different cultural groups, addressing the critic's concerns.

A Critic of Personality Inventories Says, "These Tests Have No