Editing Handwriting (section)

==Graphology==
[[Graphology]] is the [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]]<ref name='Graph_Beyer_PBS'>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/safarchive/3_ask/archive/qna/3282_bbeyerstein.html |title=Barry Beyerstein Q&A |access-date=2008-02-22 |work=Ask the Scientists |publisher=Scientific American Frontiers |archive-date=2007-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070220080111/https://www.pbs.org/safarchive/3_ask/archive/qna/3282_bbeyerstein.html |url-status=dead }} "they simply interpret the way we form these various features on the page in much the same way ancient oracles interpreted the entrails of oxen or smoke in the air. I.e., it's a kind of magical divination or fortune telling where 'like begets like.'"</ref><ref name="NYT1">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/03/news/03iht-grapho.html?pagewanted=1|title=Graphology Is Serious Business in France : You Are What You Write?|last=James|first=Barry|date=3 August 1993|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=18 September 2010}}</ref><ref name=ps>{{cite book |last=Goodwin|first= C. James |title=Research in Psychology: Methods and Design |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eNsVUGTMcDoC&pg=PA36 |year=2010 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-470-52278-3 |page=36}}</ref> study and analysis of handwriting in relation to human psychology. Graphology is primarily used as a recruiting tool in the applicant screening process for predicting personality traits and job performance, despite research showing consistently null [[correlation]]s for these uses.<ref name="kingkoehler">{{Citation|title=Illusory Correlations in Graphological Inference|journal=Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied|year=2000|volume=6|issue=4|pages=336&ndash;348|author=Roy N. King and Derek J. Koehler|doi=10.1037/1076-898X.6.4.336|pmid=11218342 |postscript=.|citeseerx=10.1.1.135.8305}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Lockowandte, Oskar Present status of the investigation of handwriting psychology as a diagnostic method|journal=Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology|year=1976|issue=6|pages=4&ndash;5|author=Lockowandte, Oskar|postscript=.
}}</ref><ref name="nevo1986">Nevo, B ''Scientific Aspects of Graphology: A Handbook'' Springfield, IL: Thomas: 1986</ref>