handwriting

[looobylooo]

do you think you can get an idea of someones personality through their handwriting...?

[MarkRae]

> Do you think you can get an idea of someone's personality through their handwriting?

No - it's utter garbage, like phrenology...

[MarkRae]

http://www.ntskeptics...actsheets/graphol.htm

[looobylooo]

ok, just wondered really ...
i like to look at peoples handwriting, i find it quite interesting..

[MarkRae]

> I like to look at people's handwriting, i find it quite interesting..

So do I.

[Rasman]

Fact.

http://www.caslon.com.au/physiognomynote6.htm

[Rasman]

"" Graphology has an incredibly low a priori probability for anyone who has the remotest understanding of neurophysiology and physiology. Is it probable (as the graphologists must be maintaining if their theory makes the slightest amount of sense), that traits such as promiscuousness or honesty (already complex dispositions, not simple things located in a few localized neurons in the brain), could have a somatic representation that is channeled into the motor cortex, down the pyramidal tracts, and out the alpha motor neurons to produce a unique writing style unique to all honest or promiscuous people whether they are left- or right-handed, male or female, taught to write by the Maclean's Method in Vancouver in 1928 or the system taught in Topeka, Kansas in 1973 ...? ""

[Rasman]

Graphology is nonsense.

[Rasman]

A graphologist's analysis of written text is Not admissible in any court for character assessment.
The use of Graphology to evaluate prospective job candidates is viewed as discriminatory.
Graphology itself if termed a pseudo-science. That is, not recognised by any scientific body.

[Rasman]

""Graphology itself is termed a pseudo-science. That is, not recognised by any scientific body.""

You asked, my answer is NO.

[Answerprancer]

Hi Looby :-)

I don't see why not.
It's a direct and physical expression of communication.

re Rasman's "Fact" Incorrect - just someone else's opinion (again).

[looobylooo]

hi ap :o)

yeah, i think so too,
i love to cast my eye over an interesting style of handwriting,

whats your writing like ap?

[Rasman]

""" A graphologist's analysis of written text is Not admissible in any court for character assessment.
The use of Graphology to evaluate prospective job candidates is viewed as discriminatory.
Graphology itself if termed a pseudo-science. That is, not recognised by any scientific body. """

Answerprancer, these are facts.

Please provide scientific proof to the contrary.

[Answerprancer]

..chicken scratchings !
(Or like a spider fell in an inkwell and crawled all over the page).