Michael Shermer Explores Graphology, Part 2

Graphology, or handwriting analysis, claims that personality characteristics such as introversion and extraversion can be inferred from the form and structure of letters, words, and sentences (introverts, for example, are said to write in smaller letters, extraverts in larger letters). Shermer puts graphology to the experimental test, showing that if you do not already know the personality characteristic you are looking for in the handwriting, graphology is no better than chance.

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[ManicEightBall]

It's just scary to think your job might be on the line because someone threw chicken bones on the ground to tell your future, or that you are being investigated as a criminal because of how tea leaves landed in a cup. This is no different. This junk science is just immoral.

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

"Missing parent" can mean dead, divorced, absent, or emotionally distant. "Coming challenge" can mean any forthcoming challenge you are uncertain about, which would have to be any upcoming challenge you give a second thought. Amazingly specific.

[luchenzione]

hey again

[santajimi]

This is the same as horoscope. Remeber that experiment where students were given a description and they judged it how accurate it is for them and in the end it was revealed they were all given he exact same description? But they all judged it to be pretty accurate for them personally.

[wingedarr0w]

She did some of those cheating "he is introverted but sometimes extroverted" bs.

[ricki388]

@ManicEightBall you think thats bad eat a poppy seed baygal your urine test at work or a job interview urine specimen comes up as opiate use AND YOU DONT GET THE JOB lol

[DesiFreethinkers]

Here's a nice test, take tests of 10 people, then take the labels off the results so no one can know which is their result, then ask the candidate to honestly pick the result that reflect them...

[1958boomergirl]

I so agree with ManicEightBall and CrazyHorseInvincible. Using pseudoscience and outright superstition as an excuse to reject an otherwise perfectly qualified job applicant----or college applicant, for that matter----is not only scary, it's unethical. Maybe even downright hateful.

[KingOfMadCows]

I hear that Dr. Ekman wanted to come up with a scientific way of studying hand writing. I wonder how that's coming along.

[justicetrooper]

Just life palm reading.