Abstract
IN this book M. Binet, the well-known experimental psychologist of the Sorbonne, describes an investigation of the art of telling intelligence and character from handwriting. After some preliminary inquiries to ascertain how far “graphologists” are able to recognise sex and age by means of writing, M. Binet submitted to several experts specimens of the handwriting of people of great intellectual eminence, such as Renan, Dumas fils, and Claude Bernard, together with others obtained from persons known to be of ordinary intelligence. The general result was to show that, though the experts were more often right than wrong, they were liable to the grossest errors, as in one case in which Renan was judged to be of mediocre and uncultivated intelligence, an opinion into which the expert appears to have been led by the repetition of a word in the sample.
Les Révélations de l'Écriture d'après un Contrôle scientifique.
By Alfred Binet. Pp. viii + 260. (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1906.) Price 5 francs.
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Les Révélations de l'Écriture d'après un Contrôle scientifique . Nature 75, 148 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/075148b0
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