Comments | foxfirefey: Handwriting analysis = pseudoscience

foxfirefey

Handwriting analysis = pseudoscience

Jan 31, 2005 10:04

The news story that made my day (and this one with a picture) -- doodles found on Tony Blair's desk were analyzed by psychologists and handwriting experts only to turn out to belong to Bill Gates. Best quote:

We look forward with amusement to explanations by a variety of psychologists and graphologists of how various characteristics ascribed to ( Read more... )

science!, rant

Comments 4

axessdenyd January 31 2005, 10:10:38 UTC

Ah yes, I love the fact-based approach.

I'd like to see mine done sometime, no one can read it.

vlion January 31 2005, 11:12:32 UTC

Amusing.

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foxfirefey January 31 2005, 11:46:19 UTC

Personally, I think they were just trying to bash Blair. I mean, the above statements could apply to me as well...except the man part. Yeah, not the man part.

PS foxfirefey January 31 2005, 11:48:16 UTC

It would be more interesting if the study was done blind -- ie, I give this to the experts and not tell them who we think it came from, then we collate the results. That would be much more convincing. But I'm not sure that it was. I wonder how I could find out. I just refuse to recognize it if it wasn't a blind study. Maybe it was. Maybe I'm just being cynical.