Chinese+Handwriting+8

1. What is the main idea of the paper? (you can get much information on this from the abstract and introduction) This paper's main idea is to report a statistical study of stroke sequences of Chinese handwriting. Chinese writing is a lot different and more complicated than American handwriting. There was a study done of 372 subjects to see if the sequence of 61 strokes was the exact same between at least two people. The results showed that no two people had the same stroke sequence.

2. What experiment, if any, was performed? This paper reports a statistical study on the writing sequence of strokes of 61 commonly encountered Chinese radicals and characters written by 372 subjects. In this study, the different stroke sequences of these Chinese radicals and characters and the degree to which they conform with the standard rules of writing were examined.

3. Was the experiment (or, if one was not performed, the data presented) GS or BS? That is, was there a large sample size, a cause-and-effect relationship, etc.

The experiment is definitely an example of good science because of the amount of individuals that were tested and studied. They used 372 people for the experiment.

4. What did the authors determine about forensic graphology? The authors determined that forensic graphology does work because one single consistant differance between two peoples samples sets them apart from one another.

5. Name at least five interesting facts from the paper that you think the rest of the class might appreciate. a. All chinese characters are meant to be written in an imaginary box to maintain consistency. b. The markings that make up characters are called radicals and there names are vertical, horizontal, angular, slash, saber, hooked, tick, and dot. c. In writing all radicals, except for tick, writers are supposed to right top to bottom, left to right, and periphery to center. d. After conducting studies is was found that while there are methods to writing, all the writers developed differing habits. e.