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Anybody know about it?Is there anything to it or is it hokus pokus?Comments please.

As in??

you can say with a high degree of certainty that some one wrote two documents. or if the signature matches.
if that is what you mean.

Some people put real faith in it and make hiring and firing based on the results. They claim that you can get personality and honesty profiles from analyzing handwriting - books are devoted to the "study". All I know is that my hand writing is much different if I use a soft pencil, ball point pen, felt pen or fountain pen (also varies depending on whether I am using a medium or broad nib).

Also, after I severely cut my fingers in a power saw, my handwriting changed drastically because I held the pen differently. I say such analysis is hogwash!

Its not how good or bad you write or if you change with differand pens etc. or change hands. it's your brain and nerve system that determins certain things in your character etc. I know very little about it so don't blast me too badley. I know it works better than a polygraph machine.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I think you can tell if someone has sloppy handwriting through carefull analysis.

I'm worried about all you guys based on the way you type.

Some folks have a knack for things that don't seem to be grounded in any science. I think some of those people have skills or intuition that I didn't know we needed. They probably think the same about my reloading rituals, but I think the results have to speak for the work.

If people hire/fire/marry/avoid based on astrology or tea leaves or handwriting analysis, what does that mean to our campfire of compadres? Ah, yes, I see it in my lifeline that I am about to buy another gun. Well, sure, if we are reading my checkbook stubs.

If your future employer, spouse, etc. makes very important decisions on the basis of your handwriting, read up of Feng Shui and fire back. At least you will get to do things to their self-confidence that they are trying to do to you.

Let life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness guide your years. And try to write legibly.

Border Doc

As a shop steward I had to go in with a guy who was accused of writing something that was meant as a joke, but intended target did not think funny.

After nobody would cop to writing it, boss man hired a handwriting expert. Made a believer out of me.

What he noticed was so obviouse, but I don't know how many would have noticed.

Seemed when this guy printed he WOould CApitolize THe FIrst TWo LEtters OF EAch WOrd. They compared to some prevouse writing he had done on some forms. It is a little more obviouse off a keyboard than to notice in handwriting.

Even after confronted, the kid wouldn't admit it though. I finally had to settle boss man down a little and the kid didn't get fired.

I walked in to a local mill looking for a job,handed in my resume.They wanted a hand-written cover letter <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />.I'm too good a millwright to work for some BS outfit.I asked for the resume back.

There's plenty to it. I have used an expert in handwriting analysis and content analysis, with success. PM me if you want contact information for a professional in the field.

Back when computers used punch cards, a carny guy hired a kid, me, to help him set up a booth at the county fair. It was billed as a computer that could analyse handwriting. He showed me how it worked. He handed the customer a card and they signed it. He took a quick look at it, punched several holes in it with a paper punch and stuck it in the computer. About 15 sec later, it printed a sheet with a bunch of personallity traits. It was actually pretty accurate. Every person who did it while I was there said that the analysis fit them very well...including mine. My analysis was right on the money.

The computer didn't do anything. The guy was a handwriting expert. He looked at the signature, figured out the person's personality traits, and entered them by punching the right numbers on the card. All the computer did was read the punches and pull the traits from a list.

It was pretty impressive how this guy could do it that fast from a signature.

Dick

I tracked down a handwriting expert for this answer.

Paula Sassi analyzes celebrity autographs as a profession, as the head of Handwriting Consultants International and as the publicity chair for the American Handwriting Analysis Foundation.

She says two factors are to blame for scrawly signatures. The more obvious, of course, is haste.

"The number one enemy of clear handwriting is speed." says Sassi. "What a [sloppy] signature suggests is that the star is being mobbed."

The other major culprit is annoyance or insecurity. Through their illegible scrawlings , stars are actually sending subtle signals that they dislike you or are keeping secrets.

"By writing something illegible, they're being evasive about who they are." Sassi says.

Wait, there's more. "When a star uses a series of vertical lines in an autograph," She adds, "they are putting up walls.

A dash at the end means the star is holding people at arm's length, --in other words, shorthand for 'freak', get away from me.

However, you can clearly see the 'M' in Michael Jackson's penned moniker. That has to mean something nice about the guy, right?

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What about someone like me who never writes in the same style twice. Look through any of my hand written records and it looks like someone different wrote every page. i have trouble at the bank sometimes cause of this. I don't do this consciously, just noticed it over the years. Do I have multiple personalities or am I just simply a scatterbrain. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Personally I think its bunk.

I don't know if its a true science or not...but handwriting experts exist. They claim you can try to mask your handwriting, but say its not possible because everyone has certain tendencies.

My tendancy is to print in all capital form. I "capitalize" by making the letter bigger than the others. It's a habit from witing legible logs in the Navy. My wife does it too, she grew up with an engineer for a dad and it rubbed off. My cursive changed over the years and now it's nearly illegible.

The burning question---Does neatness count?? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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What about someone like me who never writes in the same style twice. Look through any of my hand written records and it looks like someone different wrote every page. i have trouble at the bank sometimes cause of this. I don't do this consciously, just noticed it over the years. Do I have multiple personalities or am I just simply a scatterbrain. Personally I think its bunk.
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Now, me, I am on the other end of the spectrum, this is kind of embarresing, but I swear it is true.

My daughters were going through my baby book that my mother gave to them and they came across a story I had written in the fourth grade I believe. I looked at the cursive and thought, damn, that looks like my cursive at 46 years old.

The short story was written in pencil on lined paper, so that is what I fetched. Re-wrote one portion, you could not tell them apart.

Sadly I don't think my spelling has improved since the fourth grade either.

Are you talking about handwriting comparison or Graphology?
Comparison is the science of identification of who wrote a document, Grapholigy is the trick of telling a personality baised on handwriting.
A trained professional can tell with a high degree who wrote a document as compaired to other documents that person has written. I used to investigate check crimes and forgeries useing professional who were 100% accurate in there findings if they were presented with sutable comparison documents.
Graphology on the other hand is sort of like palm reading in my opinion

In Europe and in the Middle East it is fairly common for companies to use handwriting analysis as a tool in hiring.I was flabbergasted when one such company asked me to write a 300 word plan,in pencil ,for the position I was applying for.
The company president took it and faxed it to Europe while the interview continued.....about a half hour later ,they received an answer,and excitedly offered me the position on the spot.They insisted that this method was time tested,and yielded more accurate results than a polygraph.It would have been interesting to see how it turned out,but a family crisis occurred and I could no longer contemplate the travelling involved.They were so convinced that they persued it for several months,sweetening the pot each time.I just could not accept the position due to family responsibilities.

Comparison is the science of identification of who wrote a document
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Yes, that was what the expert was hired for, for a specific investigation to identiy the author of something written.