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Dude, come the fuck on. I take psychology as a serious science, so this methodology legitimately offends me: signature size as a metric for narcissism? Get the actual fuck out of here. This reeks of a paper in search of a conclusion.
I agree with your skepticism about the metric, but there's a gigantic example to be found in the oval office....
Could I then use this handwriting phrenology to claim that Jimmy Carter was a bigger narcissist than Barack Obama was a slightly bigger narcissist than Adolf Hitler?
I understand they're considering other factors, but this is so obviously fucking stupid.
Time to focus on the other factors, all these studies have loose edges. It comes from using subjective measurements. The results are in line with what we know about CEOs so it’s tempting to get onboard.