How does the Minnesota Report deal with invalid records?
The Minnesota Reports are designed to interpret only protocols that meet well-established validity criteria. Invalid protocols are dealt with in two ways: Extremely elevated and clearly invalid records are not interpreted but the scores are provided on profile sheets clearly marked INVALID. Protocols that are possibly invalid (e.g. overly defensive or exaggerated) are discussed in a section in the report called Validity Considerations. The utility of the particular evaluation is described and estimated contingent upon the level of performance on all the validity scales. The cut-offs for different settings will vary depending upon the research available.
