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August 31, 2009
The automated phrenologist
I've just discovered the excellent This Week in the History of Psychology podcast series which has a particularly good episode on the 'psycograph', an automated phrenology device created in 1905.The idea is that it would 'read' the bumps on your head by the use of mechanical plungers and it would then print a profile of your 'character' in a matter of seconds.There's a remarkable amount of inform
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