aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Friday, April 18, 2008

Handwriting holds no clues to personality

Remember that pricy personality test I had done by a popular Manhattan handwriting analyst?

Lest there was any doubt science has conclusively proven… [to my satisfaction...] it’s all bunk!

Geoffrey Dean has reviewed two hundred different studies into whether graphology can tell us anything about personality (Dean, 1992). Adding up the effect of each of these studies showed that graphology has a combined power of about...wait for it...zero. Well, not quite zero but still very, very small - so small as to be insignificant.