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3rd September 2006, 06:14 PM
I've just seen this on another forum and thought I'd use it as a typical example of the way people can become convinced that psychics are genuine and can know things they couldn't possibly have known.
<blockquote>My girlfriend went to see a physic bloke yesterday with a friend for a laugh
the bloke who did the reading doesn't use any form of advertising and gets his clients just through word of mouth.
as im abit sceptical about all this stuff i didn't really pay any interest.
anyway she turned up at this old guys house nothing special no signs outside no banners etc just looked like an average house in a street. she sat down and all he asked was her name and date of birth.
anyway she got home about two hours later and she was white as a sheet! Surpris i said wtf wrong!.
her words were he knew EVERYTHING! even where i worked what i do where ive been' our house' what it looked like inside!.
myself and the missus had an almighty row the other night he also knew about that!!!! and what it was over! Surpris Confus
the meeting was over 30 min lots was said about our future good and bad.
Im no longer a skeptic he says we all have spirit guides and he talks to them thats where he gets all his info Confus
looks were gona have 3 kids get engaged in the next two years and her family move to spain! which they were talkin about before we stopped talking!!
anyone else had a reading i know there are alot of "fakes" out there but this guy knew his sh!t!!! </blockquote>
An argument that psychics often use is that you can't criticise psychics unless you've tried it for yourself.
This is a good example of why that's not the case. Anyone can be just as fooled as this couple were if they don't know how Cold Reading works. I've also seen, many times, people take the attitude that they do not believe in psychics and the psychic would have to come up with something pretty amazing to convince them.
Again, without any knowledge of how readings are done, there's a good chance that they'll end up convinced.
The point is that it takes only one experience like this to convince people (who are ignorant of Cold Reading) that it's all real. And, being a personal experience, it's difficult to convince them that things didn't occur quite as they remembered.
<blockquote>My girlfriend went to see a physic bloke yesterday with a friend for a laugh
the bloke who did the reading doesn't use any form of advertising and gets his clients just through word of mouth.
as im abit sceptical about all this stuff i didn't really pay any interest.
anyway she turned up at this old guys house nothing special no signs outside no banners etc just looked like an average house in a street. she sat down and all he asked was her name and date of birth.
anyway she got home about two hours later and she was white as a sheet! Surpris i said wtf wrong!.
her words were he knew EVERYTHING! even where i worked what i do where ive been' our house' what it looked like inside!.
myself and the missus had an almighty row the other night he also knew about that!!!! and what it was over! Surpris Confus
the meeting was over 30 min lots was said about our future good and bad.
Im no longer a skeptic he says we all have spirit guides and he talks to them thats where he gets all his info Confus
looks were gona have 3 kids get engaged in the next two years and her family move to spain! which they were talkin about before we stopped talking!!
anyone else had a reading i know there are alot of "fakes" out there but this guy knew his sh!t!!! </blockquote>
An argument that psychics often use is that you can't criticise psychics unless you've tried it for yourself.
This is a good example of why that's not the case. Anyone can be just as fooled as this couple were if they don't know how Cold Reading works. I've also seen, many times, people take the attitude that they do not believe in psychics and the psychic would have to come up with something pretty amazing to convince them.
Again, without any knowledge of how readings are done, there's a good chance that they'll end up convinced.
The point is that it takes only one experience like this to convince people (who are ignorant of Cold Reading) that it's all real. And, being a personal experience, it's difficult to convince them that things didn't occur quite as they remembered.