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Unread 08-05-2013, 09:38 AM   #1
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And knowing how things turned out probably doesn't hurt the tea leaves business...
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Agreed. It is called retro-fitting, "cherry picking", or confirmation bias. It is difficult to imagine, given the name of the subject, how this could be overcome. Sorry, but graphology is quite squishy--as is polygraphy--because of the need for an operator to make interpretations. From http://www.skepdic.com/graphol.html
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Graphologists believe such details can reveal as much about a person as astrology , palm reading, psychometry, rumpology, or the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator. However, there is no evidence that the unconscious mind is a reservoir of truth about a person, much less that graphology provides a gateway to that reservoir.
I agree that one could extract as much real meaning from these analyses as the other woo listed in the quote. Guess how much. Sorry, don't mean to be unkind about someone's hobby interests, but "Just the facts, Ma'am."
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