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The day a judge told me my handwriting analysis was 'too artistic'
I do forensic handwriting comparison as a side gig, and for 5 years I leaned hard into the flourishes and quirks of each writer's style. Then a small claims judge in Akron threw out my report because I called a signature 'playful' instead of just describing the stroke angles. Now I stick to the mechanical stuff like pen pressure and letter spacing, and I feel like I lost some creativity, but my admissibility rate went from about 3 out of 5 to 9 out of 10. Anyone else have to strip the personality out of their niche to be taken seriously?
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hollym1216h ago
Do the judges actually say what's wrong, or just that it's too pretty?
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