The graphologist takes all the above evidence and puts it together, producing the final analysis. This will be discussed in the following chapters in more detail.
Note, please, that this course is geared in particular to the American subject. It applies to other nationalities only insofar as their national forms of handwriting are also taken into consideration. American students are taught to write with a slight inclination to the right, and I have allowed for this throughout the course. If the person whose writing you want to analyze is from some other country, you must know the slant of writing natural in his homeland and adjust the standard that will be used there to that angle. If, for example, he went to school in England, where students are taught to write at an upright angle, you must give somewhat more emphasis if his writing slants to the right than I have given here and somewhat less if his writing slants to the left.

Examination for Lesson 1

1. What is graphology?
2. Does a handwriting sample reveal the sex and age of the writer?

Yes? ___ No? ___

3. What degree of accuracy is attributed to trained graphologists? (What percent)
4. What is the empirical method?
5. Are all Anglo-Saxon's taught a similar writing slant in school?

Answers for Lesson 1

1. Graphology is the study of handwriting and what it can tell about the mind behind it.

2. No

3. 90-95 percent

4. Graphologists used to look for a common denominator in the handwriting of groups of people known to display a certain character trait. Having found it, they would conclude that everyone whose handwriting shows this particular idiosyncrasy must possess the same personality trait. If, among five hundred people, the majority wrote a t bar flung to the right and had violent personalities, then it was assumed that every writer of a t bar flung rightward had a violent personality.
This was known as the empirical method.

5. No

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