In the 1800s, employers really did hire skull-readers to feel job applicants’ heads before making an offer. Phrenology claimed the bumps and contours of your skull revealed everything from your honesty to your intelligence, and for decades it was taken seriously enough to shape hiring decisions, marriages, and even criminal trials. This is the full story of the porcelain head charts, the traveling phrenologists who read skulls at county fairs, and the science that eventually proved the whole theory wrong.
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