By Request: An Analysis of Spitzer’s Signature
Yesterday, I posted Spitzer’s resignation letter.
Commenter “Jack” wrote:
That signature would be fun exercise in handwriting analysis, I’ll bet…
I contacted professional handwriting analyst Dennis Duez of www.handwritinganalyst.com, who was kind enough to permit me to post his analysis of Spitzer’s signature:
Eliot Spitzer possesses an extremely strong ego, but is dealing with a strong downturn in self-image.
Ego and intellect tie together. Tell him he is brilliant and he will easily agree with you.
Spitzer is extremely independent, he knows that his way of doing things is the right way and does not respond well to critics.
Spitzer is a great spin-doctor, manipulating reality to his own ends. He has a talent for making things work his way.
Spitzer is an intensely private person, who does not easily, if at all, let people see the his inner psychological depths.
His signature evidences frustration because he is not able to maintain his own sense of privacy and individual identity in regards to family or other relationships
Spitzer deals with strong anger issues. He deals with strong, sharp intellectual frustrations.
A major emotional / family relationship in his life has flat-lined / strongly diminished.
His sense of sexuality, contrary to what might be assumed, has diminished and is he more drawn to emotional support and interaction as well as sexual involvement.
He is a strong romantic, he needs the romance, believes in it, but does not trust it.
Someone has been out of contact with him for some time, and this is a continuing frustration.
Someone who was an important mental support / mentor is no longer available and that is a major frustration for Spitzer.
Although the scan was grainy, there are some artifacts of physical stress that may be indicated.
Spitzer appears to have an older injury to lower back and possibly aggravation in the left hip area.
He also appears to have an older injury / stress point in the left shoulder, neck, collarbone, and / or rotator area.
Copyright © Dennis Duez 2008 All Rights Reserved
Fran Says:March 14th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Elliot poor Elliot that is what he gets for supporting Hillary Clinton. If he supported Barack Obama, I know something like the prostitute would have never happened because he would have been a real man of character. Because he supported Hillary it shows where his mind was at.
Eric P. Says:March 14th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Brilliant analysis, which concurs with the findings over at captainobvious.com . They had experts in the fields of phrenology, physiognomy, astrology, pathognomy and pop psychoanalytics put together a profile. Amazingly, they reached the same conclusions, although they did miss the stressed collarbone thing.
Dennis` Says:March 14th, 2008 at 10:52 am
As Manuel on Fawlty Towers would often retort to Basil ( John Cleese ):
Que ?
Went to captainobvious.com and got a pretty blank web page. What “findings” ???
Eric P. Says:March 14th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Dennis:
The captainobvious.com cite / site was what we, in the pseudo-scientific community, refer to as a “goof”.
private eye Says:March 14th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Strikes me that Spitzer’s security team blew him in and the feds said it was the banking activity.
They probably hated to see a hypocryte;
hated being used as a tool against bruno;
and, thought it was a security risk him sleeping w freaks
What are the votes for this argument?
STEEL Says:March 14th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Did he do the analysis knowing that it was Spitzer (in which case his results are tainted by what he already knows)
or
Did he do the analysis not knowing who the person was.
eac Says:March 14th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Even calling handwriting analysis a ‘pseudo-science’ gives it way to much credit. I sure hope you didn’t have to pay Dennis Duez even a penny for that crap.
eac Says:March 14th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
steel- interesting point, because if the handwriting is at all legible (i know many signatures are not), he’ll be biased regardless.
If the signature is not legible, that what are you basing your analysis on? scribble analysis? ok.
Handwriting analysis has exactly this much scientific support: 0
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mark Says:March 14th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
To state the obvious, There’s no way I make “E-l-i-o-t-S-p-i-t-z-e-r” out of this scrawl. Which leads me to conclude either A) he has already started drinking heavily or B) he had someone named ChiA sign his resignation letter.
If the latter, then he hasn’t really resigned, and is quite possibly just waiting for Bruno and a small cabal of lobbyists and capitalists to start gloating about how they set him up so he can snap back and arrest them for conspiracy to disgrace a Hillary superdelegate (class 1 felony) and get back to doing the work of the people.
It could happen like that.
it could.
Jack Says:March 14th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
OK - so I started this nonsense with an offhanded remark about bad penmanship, but frankly, in a neutral experiment, handwriting analysis can be insightful. But if this expert knew it was Spitzer’s sig already, then I too will say that the result is shens. (Thanks for trying, Alan!)
But as someone else said - this looks like it was signed by a ChiA-pet!
Charlie Says:March 15th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
He sufered an injury because of “massive” overload work to that limb.