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Article: Bad posture : LETTERS
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 5, 1996
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A SMALL news item tells us (Briefly, 29 January) that Yale
University has shredded the "posture" photographs of former
students made by WH Sheldon, on the grounds that they "advanced a
since-discredited science". Sheldon thought it would be possible
to measure human physique on certain basic dimensions, and relate
these to personality characteristics. It was a scientific ...