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Is handwriting analysis an occult activity?

Recently a couple of people told me that handwriting analysis, which I had always considered a forensic science, was an occult activity similar to astrology, numerology, etc. Has anyone else ever heard this? This POV seems bizarre to me.

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    10 years ago
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    No, it is a scientific activity. Occult practices are basically practices in which one takes something from the world and produces an ambiguous perception of it. For example, measuring a goat's entrails yields no scientifically valid results. Neither does looking at the stars and interpreting them however you feel is right. They are all activities based on emotion and feeling.

    Handwriting analysis, on the other hand, is a scientific approach to analyzing such an emotion, but in the form of handwriting. It is a study based off of many decades of analysis. That is, people started noticing the way people write during certain emotional states and started making observations. That wouldn't have been very accurate if you had only analyzed a single person's handwriting and asked their emotional state while writing it, because it would have provided only a single analysis. However, if you looked at thousands and thousands of samples of writing for decades and decades, you would begin to see trends in the way most people write.

    It makes no sense to call it an occult practice, because it is based on scientific fact closely related to psychology. If you were going to call it an occult (non-scientific) practice, it goes to say you would also have to declare psychology, political science, sociology, etc. occult practices, because they are also sciences based off of observations of human behavior. Handwriting analysis is no different than personality analysis. Just instead of monitoring and measuring body language and spoken words in comparison with the average trends, you are measuring and comparing written characters. It is just different methodology used to produce similar observations.

    It is pretty crazy what can be done with handwriting analysis, too. I could look at your handwriting and tell you whether you are introvertive, extrovertive, rational, or unstable. I could tell not only if you were upset while writing a letter or journal entry, but which SPECIFIC words, statements, and lines you were upset about. I could tell by your signature your background; whether you were given much attention or not, whether you were taught a certain pride for yourself and your family name. I could tell how you behave socially by what kind of lower loops you make. Etc. Etc. The list goes on. And it isn't that people who perform handwriting analysis are just making random guesses because they think that is what it means. No. They are looking at features that, due to the thousands and thousands of samples and analyses done, convey certain emotional states. It is like how analysts can tell if people are lying when they slow down a video tape. They observe their mannerisms and see if they are lying. These analysts don't say the person is lying just because they think avoiding eye contact says so. No, instead they know that doing so usually alludes to lying because they have made thousands of observations and studies on the matter, and they found trends that exhibit certain behavior and mannerisms during the practice of lying.

    That is how handwriting analysis works. When you look over a thousand samples of handwriting known to have been written when the writers were upset, and find that 92% of them exhibit a certain way of producing a feature or character, then it logically goes to say that most other people will do the same thing. This tells you that people who are upset will create that feature when they write. And when you cross check these features with thousands of others, etc. etc. you get a better, more concrete base of analysis. This is how the human brain works, and this is how we perform practically everything, including finances and business. It is all performed off of a base of analysis that was created during studies of certain features. They cannot CONCRETELY say to a 100% accuracy rate that anything will happen in the market, even with the best mathematics and the best analysis. They can only make very educated predictions. Just because handwriting analysis cannot make a 100% accurate analysis either doesn't make it an occult practice. If so, everything would be.

    These people don't know what they are talking about, just like about 95% of the rest of people on Earth.

    Source(s): I could be wrong but, you know, I'm not.
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Handwriting Analysis Activity

  • 10 years ago

    Graphology started as a kind of psychological evaluation of personality. Not so much "occult" as a reading of how a person interacted with other people. In the days when most people actually write things down, it was a way of expressing yourself, compared to the standard "copperplate" style that they were taught. People would put in their little flourishes, like making the dots over i;s and j's little circles or little hearts, or the way they crossed their t's, joined the letters, or didn't join them. So it looked like something that everyone did just a little bit differently.

    Forensic science is based on the same idea - people follow the same habits when they write. so you can tell, with a fair degree of accuracy, whether the same person wrote in two different missives.

    Astrology, numerology and a number of the other "mances" are more about predicting the future, rather than anything else.

  • 10 years ago

    I wouldn't use the term "occult", but there are questions about its validity (just as there are questions about the validity of fingerprint analysis).

    While there is information to be gleaned, the information is subjective. There have been few studies that attempt to give quantitative limits on how much information is present and how well investigators can interpret the evidence. So courts have a difficult time on understanding how much weight to assign the evidence or to determine under what situations the analysis is likely to be less accurate.

    I assume you're asking about comparative analysis. But some will refer to graphology or the process of determining a psychological profile from written material as "handwriting analysis". There's no good evidence that such practices are any more valid than a horoscope.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    You're talking about different things. Handwriting analysis by a questioned documents examiner is a scientific procedure. Graphology is form of fortunetelling from a person's handwriting. It is held up as a science, but it's just a fraud, supposedly revealing an individual's personality from details of how letters are formed. It has no validity at all, but it's widely touted for employment screening, fraud detection, etc.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    10 years ago

    No I have never heard this it may be considered an espionage (spy) activity but for no reason should be considered occult activity, though it is not impossible that cults have used handwriting analysis.

  • 10 years ago

    Very strange o.0 It's just forensics...

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    No IT'S NOT

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