Phrenology was very popular in the 19th century, but nowadays most consider it to be nothing more than a curious pseudoscience.
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Phrenology
/frənˈɑlədʒi/
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Phrenology involves feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes.
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MR. BURNS: Who could forget such a monstrous visage? She has the sloping brow and cranial bumpage of the career criminal. MR. SMITHERS: Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago.
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Phrenology was the practice of correlating bumps on a skull with mental powers and attributes of character.
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