Modern Usage
Practitioners of the personality type theory socionics use physiognomy as a personality identification technique.
There is some evidence that people can detect male homosexuality by looking at facial characteristics.
A physiognomist named Yoshito Mizuno was employed from 1936 to 1945 by the Imperial Japanese Naval Aeronautics Department, examining candidates for the Naval Air Corps, after - to their surprise - Admiral Yamamoto's staff discovered that he could predict with over 80% accuracy the qualifications of candidates to become successful pilots.
In 2011, the South Korean news agency Yonhap, published a physiognomical analysis of the heir of North Korea, future leader Kim Jong-Un.
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