Handwriting clue to heart disease

A graphologist is conducting a study to find out whether handwriting can reveal the early signs of heart disease.

Christina Strang, from Wiltshire, compared handwriting samples of 61 cardiac patients from Swindon with those of healthy people.

Ms Strang says that when writing we rest the pen for milliseconds and these so-called "resting dots" could show possible heart malfunctions.

Her research showed twice as many "resting dots" among the cardiac group.

Ms Strang, 53, has worked analysing handwriting for 12 years and is based in Chippenham.
She was inspired to investigate the link between potential health problems and handwriting after learning about the work of Professor Alfred Kanfer.

Professor Kanfer, born in 1902, was a handwriting consultant in the Austrian government who was sent to Dachau concentration camp during World War II and then lived in the United States.

He worked with the American Cancer Society in the 1950s, exploring the possible early detection of malignant diseases through the analysis of handwriting.

Ms Strang said: "I managed to find a statistically significant difference in the writing of patients with cardiac disease and my control group.
"I've found one particular movement in the writing, although I actually believe there's far more than just the one link, and my research is going to be continuing, looking to see if I can find those other links as well.

"In the group I used, some had been diagnosed and some hadn't, so I'm hoping to do a completely new group of people who have not been diagnosed with heart disease and the idea is to see if I can pick out the ones that will ultimately be diagnosed."

She explains that she examines the number of "resting dots" - the place where the pen stops momentarily in the course of a stroke - as part of her analysis.

What is Graphology ?
Graphology or Handwriting Analysis is a science of interpreting a person's character from his/her personal handwriting.
What can Graphology be used for ?
Coupled with psychology and knowledge of human behaviour, it can be used for many varied purposes. For example, Recuitment, Marriage compatibility, Career Guidance, Motivate workers, Child developement... etc.
What competitive advantages does Graphology gives to a commercial organisation ?
It is an invaluable aid to the Human Resource Department.
It's the people running the commercial organisation that determines the success or failure of an organisation. It is especially important for personnel in key appointments. To get the right person with the right 'mix' of knowledge and personality attribute for the right job is crucial to the success of the organisation.
Graphology will be of great help in this area.
How many companies uses graphology for personnel selection?
7.9% of companies in England are using graphology in personnel screening.- according to a dissertation done in England by a graduate of the Faculty of Business Management and Administration at Leeds Polytechnic."Handwriting Analysis in Staff Selection" by Philip Sacks; The Graphological Magazine, No. 1, Spring 1995.
80% of French Businesses use graphology as a tool for evaluating applicant.- according to French Society of Graphology. Portion of translated letter from French Society of Graphology is listed below.
" It is, indeed,*correct* that those who are responsible for recruitment, in human resources and business journalists, report that approximately 80 percent of French businesses use graphology as a tool for evaluation of their applicants for various positions. This percentage is applicable not only to administrative positions but the mass of positions available in business." - Jul 1995.
How does Graphology compares to other forms of personality Analysis tools ?
Graphology can analyse a person's personality without his knowledge that he is being analysed.(of course not without his consent.) Thus reducing the possibility of inaccuracies due to conscious or unconcious effort by the subject to affect the result. Distortion of the result due to the subject's knowledge that he/she is being analysed is common in most Question-&-Answer type of personality analysis tools. Some tools may claims to have better precision, but since a person is growing and changing dynamically every second, high precision is not really helpful. It's better to use graphology to analyse the handwriting of a pure untainted subject , rather than to put the subject under unnatural stress of a long questionaire.
Secondly, a single personality questionaire may reveal a single dimension of personality. But two handwriting samples of the same person at different occasion may reveals different behaviour characteristics.
Can Graphology tell Future ?
In a strict sense ... No, but in reality ... Not really No.
Graphology is an art/science of intepretating. It may associate a certain handwriting to a particular behavourial or personality traits eg. A Right slant implies extrovert. But it can't say any thing beyond that. Whether an extrovert may be successful in future is unknown.
But if someone is able to prove that an extrovert has a significantly better chance of being successful in future, then we may deduce from handwriting the potential of a person with a right slant. Usage of Graphology for recuitment of key personnel uses similar assumption.
My handwriting can changes very quickly, so how can graphology decipher my personality accurately ?
Our Handwriting is like our Face, our speech and action.
A stroke of writing that shows friendly traits is like a smile on the face.
A person who normally writes illegibly but writes clearly when he or she is aware that someone important is going to read it ; is like someone who is sloppy at home but dress nicely when going to a formal dinner.