Sentence:  For example, using <WSD>projectives</WSD> as a psychometric technique allows one to compare a person's score with those from a normative group, or with those from some relevant clinic group, or with some other clinically important criterion (e.g., response to treatment). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An assessment test that presents subjects with some sort of stimulus to which they react by projecting or imagining details.