[M X]

did i spell that right? =].. i'm so excited. i hope i'm not famous for being like a ****** or sleeping with a footballer!

[Brad.]

Psychics are fakes

[M X]

Originally posted by Bradley.
Psychics are fakes

She said some pretty accurate and freaky stuff that I'm not going to go into.

[Tom]

Originally posted by MichaelSpears

She said some pretty accurate and freaky stuff that I'm not going to go into.

Its called cold reading. Its very psychological. Basically they play with your mind. They give you a lot of vague information where the mind then fills in the blanks and reconstructs itself to think "she told me that ______". If you went with a completely sceptical view you would come out thinking different things.

[Brad.]

Originally posted by Tom

Its called cold reading. Its very psychological. Basically they play with your mind. They give you a lot of vague information where the mind then fills in the blanks and reconstructs itself to think "she told me that ______". If you went with a completely sceptical view you would come out thinking different things.

That is true tom.

[Shaun]

Well it won't be for winning a Spelling Bee.

[Princess]

People shouldn't be cynical if they've never been. You have no cluw how freakingly accurate they get some stuff. I went once and it completely freaked me out!

Good luck with your fame Michael :P

[Tom]

Originally posted by Princess
People shouldn't be cynical if they've never been. You have no cluw how freakingly accurate they get some stuff. I went once and it completely freaked me out!

Good luck with your fame Michael :P

I have been and when you don't think of anything none of actually means anything. A lot of the stuff she said was very vague and could be easily be guessed by someone off the street. But ones who can describe dead relatives down to a tee are very odd ...

[\PJ/]

I hope it comes true.

[Zac]

You, famous?!

[MrGaryy]

I don't hold much in p-s-y-c-h-i-c-s, they have a a way of twisting their own words to fall into place with your mind's assumptions.

[Lauren]

Tom's right. They're fun to go to when you know their tricks, and call them out on it they get rather stumble-y and baffled.

You'll be famous if you want it enough, though.

[Tom4784]

Originally posted by Shaun
Well it won't be for winning a Spelling Bee.

I don't believe in psychics, it's mostly cold reading with perhaps a pinch of intuition.

[keithafc]

Cold reading can only work to a degree. There has been physics out there who go really into the deep stuff in terms of dead family members and produce amazing stuff.

The problem is there is FAR too many of them in the UK. There is no way to prove it or disprove it. But if it is a gift, then far too many people have it.

But we possibly all have this gift in the brain, it's just not many people know how to use it.

[Locke.]

Make sure you write about me in your book.

[M X]

I realise people think about 'cold readings' but she said stuff you couldn't have possibly guessed. Too accurate.

[M X]

Originally posted by Zac
You, famous?!

Zac, when will you ever learn. Nobody laughs at these 'jokes' you make. They fail everytime honey :/

[Sticks]

You could be famous for miss-spelling psychics.


A lot of what is said about cold reading is true, but do not forget Hot Reading, when the fraud / cheat scam artist (Sorry psychic) researches you in depth.

For further information see the James Randi Educational Foundation

[Twilight]

Gosh people they aren't all fake, and Michael Good luck at being famous. You just might be the next britney

[Sticks]

Originally posted by MichaelSpears
I realise people think about 'cold readings' but she said stuff you couldn't have possibly guessed. Too accurate.

The problem is that these frauds make loads of guesses and the punters remember the hits and forget the misses.

Imagine you have a handfull of darts and throw them at a regular dart board. Some are bound to hit the bullseye, and people will say that's amazing, overlooking there may be many darts that don't even hit the dart board.

They only see the hits.

That is how cold reading works

[BBUK4LYFE]

Too bad psychics are fake.

[BBUK4LYFE]

Originally posted by Sticks

The problem is that these frauds make loads of guesses and the punters remember the hits and forget the misses.

Imagine you have a handfull of darts and throw them at a regular dart board. Some are bound to hit the bullseye, and people will say that's amazing, overlooking there may be many darts that don't even hit the dart board.

They only see the hits.

That is how cold reading works

Ding, ding, ding... We have a winner.

[Twilight]

They aren't all fake duhh

[Mark]

There's a great discussion on youtube between Derren Brown and Richard Dawkins, explaining how 'psychics' and cold reading works, it's 6 parts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xswt8...=TL&playnext=1

[Twilight]

For goodness sake he make this topic about this for fun, and everyone is like they are fake, i mean maybe they are, but we can believe if we want to