Your Textbook Describes a Research Study That Was Designed to Test

question 168

Multiple Choice

Your textbook describes a research study that was designed to test the ability of graphologists to use handwriting samples to distinguish among occupational groups. What were the results of this study?

• A)The graphologists were the best able to distinguish among occupational groups.
• B)Psychologists were more accurate than graphologists when they evaluated handwriting samples, but less accurate than graphologists when they evaluated typewritten transcripts of the handwriting samples.
• C)The graphologists predicted that they would be 100 percent accurate in distinguishing among occupational groups, but their overall performance was only slightly better than that of untrained evaluators.
• D)Successful secretaries, but not unsuccessful secretaries, showed the greatest proficiency in distinguishing among different occupational groups based on handwriting samples.

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