Jacqueline Stallone, the sole rediscoverer of rumpology and the writer of the article “About Rumpology,” describes what rumpology is and how it works. According to Stallone, rumpology is a way for people to receive an understanding of their past and future life in personality characteristics through rump readings. Rumpology is the art of reading crevices, dimples, warts, lines, moles and much more of a client 's rump. For many people, this process can be describes as going to a psychic for a reading on their future. The process of rumpology is done by examining a clear photography of a client’s rump. Stallone’s main focus areas are the left and right gluteal spheres (the cheeks) and the gluteal crevice (the crack) which depicts the most
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What makes something pseudoscience, comes more from the way it was studied than from the matter itself. Stallone, only vaguely explains how reading your rump leads to describing your personality or explaining who and what you will be in the near future. As a rumpologist they care more about how you say something than what you actually say. The meaning behind a line or a dimple can mean that you have stretch marks or you simply hurt yourself, but rumpologist use their imagination in order to amaze their clients and appear confident and sincere in something that has no concrete evidence. The scientific method consists of observing, predicting, testing, interpreting, and communicating. Rumpology uses loose and distorted logic. Stallone claims, the most intimate and effective form involves reading the human body, as it contains vast amounts of information of a person in all forms of divination, but a simple bump on your rump does not account for the person you are or will be. Stallone then links the art of rumpology to face reading. She claims that everyone innate the ability of a face reading, as we are able to predict precise personalities because intuitively we pick up on the person 's emotion given in that situation. The conceptual purpose behind face reading was to create a science out of a frequent human action: judging a person by his or her facial characteristics. Modern research shows when a person observes the face of another for the first time, a judgement of character is formulated not the distinctiveness of a person. Likewise, the reading of your rump has no actuality that can describe your personality or
What makes something pseudoscience, comes more from the way it was studied than from the matter itself. Stallone, only vaguely explains how reading your rump leads to describing your personality or explaining who and what you will be in the near future. As a rumpologist they care more about how you say something than what you actually say. The meaning behind a line or a dimple can mean that you have stretch marks or you simply hurt yourself, but rumpologist use their imagination in order to amaze their clients and appear confident and sincere in something that has no concrete evidence. The scientific method consists of observing, predicting, testing, interpreting, and communicating. Rumpology uses loose and distorted logic. Stallone claims, the most intimate and effective form involves reading the human body, as it contains vast amounts of information of a person in all forms of divination, but a simple bump on your rump does not account for the person you are or will be. Stallone then links the art of rumpology to face reading. She claims that everyone innate the ability of a face reading, as we are able to predict precise personalities because intuitively we pick up on the person 's emotion given in that situation. The conceptual purpose behind face reading was to create a science out of a frequent human action: judging a person by his or her facial characteristics. Modern research shows when a person observes the face of another for the first time, a judgement of character is formulated not the distinctiveness of a person. Likewise, the reading of your rump has no actuality that can describe your personality or