A couple of weeks ago The Today Programme broadcast an item about how a group of psychologists had discovered that people who prepared job applications by hand were more likely to lie in them than people who made applications through online forms. Today invited an “expert” onto the air to discuss this finding: a graphologist. She spooned out the usual pseudoscientific drivel. How pleased I was to read this story today, illustrating (as if we needed more evidence) the uselessness of many journalists and all graphologists.
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You can add econometricians to that useless list as well.
(Sorry, that’s a “crooked” inside joke.)
I’m still skeptical that the doodles belong to Mr Gates.
The world’s biggest geek, with an unlimited supply of money, using a pen and paper ? I think not. I’m an impoverished geek and I still take a Palm Tungsten T to meetings for note taking.
My bet they’ll spring the grapho-quackologists again and say it was actually Bono, ‘struggling to keep control of a confusing world’ is a dead giveaway.