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Physiognomy

zouzoum

Registered User
What do u think about it ? Does it really work to identify people ?

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BryanMaloney

Premium Member
The only function it has is individual identification. However, the idea that physiognomy has any relationship to behavior, mental function, moral capacity, etc., is utter quackery (except in those uncommon and extreme cases of specific genetic disorders that have both external and neurological signs and symptoms).
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
As a short guy I was hoping the sing that song "Short people ..." but then I looked up the word and it's only the face.

One problem with the concept is someone with light sensitive eyes will squint a lot and that involves the same facial muscles as a person who habitually scowls.
 

Tony Uzzell

Registered User
I had to look up physiognomy to know what it was.

After doing that, I thought about that you do come across people who can "read" people at a glance. Although, rarely is that simply looking at their faces; it's looking at their entire physical appearance, something that's been called a "Sherlock Scan", after Sherlock Holmes, who was created by Brother Arthur Conan Doyle.

Which begs the question, did Doyle believe in physiognomy?

This is the way my brain works most of the time. I suffer from Attention Defic- Oh, look! Shiny!

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