Subjective validation is the process of validating words, initials, statements, or signs as accurate because one is able to find them personally meaningful and significant.
Subjective validation explains why many people are seduced by the apparent accuracy of pseudoscientific personality profiles.
Subjective validation deludes everyone from the housewife who thinks her happiness depends on her blood type or horoscope, to the FBI agent who thinks criminal profiles are spot on, to the therapist who thinks her Rorschach readings are penetrating portraits of psychological disorders.