Read the method ( Graphology) and understand what it is and also explain the challenges associated with that method from both the perspective of the Interviewer and job candidate. Evaluative Assessment Methods Graphology GRAPHOLOGY Some employers use handwriting analysis in staffing decisions. Graphology includes any practice that involves determining personlity traits or abilities from a person's hand- writing. We do not recommend graphology as an assessment method because it has been found to have little or no validity. 14 Applicants tend not to like the use of graphology and find it invasive if they're not being sold their handwriting is being used to assess them.2 Courts also tend not to like graphology207 because it can result in people with physical and emotional handicaps being discriminated against, violating the ADA. A good rule of thumb is that if an individual who has an ADA-defined disability cannot take a test, then it should not be used unless it can be adapted for use by these individuals. Handwriting analysis clearly falls into the group of tests that cannot be adapted to be administered to individuals who fall within one or more ADA-defined disabilities