The direction of pen movement within selected characters in the handwriting of a large sample of writers has been determined. The results show significant differences between leftand right-handed writers and allow an estimate to be made of the confidence with which a document examiner can attribute
Variability of Stroke Direction between Left- and Right-handed Writers
โ Scribed by M.G. Talbot-Wilson
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 249 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0015-7368
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โฆ Synopsis
In their paper on stroke directions Franks, Davis, Totty, Hardcastle and Grove [I] describe some phenomena of handwriting substantially dependent on the writing hand. Of 117 left-handed writers, 76% wrote the cross-stroke of the block capital J from right to left. Of 251 right-handed writers, none did so. Results are presented for the direction of the horizontal stroke and the circular stroke in several other letters, and for the occurrence in a handwriting of at least one circular stroke written clockwise in any test character. These results are significant and might, with their statistical analysis, have been presented without apology.
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