Graphology is useless pseudoscientific cack claiming to tell us something about a person's innermost drives based on their handwriting. It is an insult to both science and art. I beg you, please do not waste any of your time on it.

There is an organization that offers training in graphology claiming it can be a lucrative expert-witness gig in court. This is also cack. There are true Questioned Document Examiners who can detect (using conventional scientific means) whether two samples of writing were produced by the same hand, but their training is completely different from "graphology" and they regularly distance themselves from graphologists. But those not familiar with this conflict are easily led to confuse the two groups. Questioned Document Examination is a worthwhile career to pursue (although about as livable as type design) whereas graphology is not. Know the difference.

http://www.abfde.org/fde.htm

Graphology belongs in the same bucket as New Age religions, UFO and conspiracy theorists, homeopathic medicine and magnetic insoles.

> conspiracy theorists

Please don't use that blanket term. It breeds complacent social idiocy.

hhp

I've heard stories of employers who request handwriting samples from job candidates... they believe in this - if it is - crap?

I've heard stories of employers who request handwriting samples from job candidates...

This is part of a screening process by which intelligent people looking for a job can identify stupid companies for whom they don't want to work.

Do it yourself Handwriting analysis.

If anybody analyzed my handwriting they would probably find out what a lazy bum I am.