Comments on: The Forer Effect (aka The Barnum Effect) http://www.lostaddress.org/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect making our stupidity help you Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:16:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Blog Map 10 – I | Bruce Reyes-Chow http://www.lostaddress.org/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/comment-page-1#comment-14396 Blog Map 10 – I | Bruce Reyes-Chow Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:00:53 +0000 http://www.lostaddress.org/index.php/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/#comment-14396 [...] #3: // Ray’s Place of Stuff // Social commentary and general rants.  The Barnum Effect post was particularly [...] [...] #3: // Ray’s Place of Stuff // Social commentary and general rants.  The Barnum Effect post was particularly [...]

]]> By: Blog Map 10 – I « Bruce Reyes-Chow http://www.lostaddress.org/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/comment-page-1#comment-14367 Blog Map 10 – I « Bruce Reyes-Chow Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:37:55 +0000 http://www.lostaddress.org/index.php/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/#comment-14367 [...] #3: // Ray’s Place of Stuff // Social commentary and general rants.  The Barnum Effect post was particularly [...] [...] #3: // Ray’s Place of Stuff // Social commentary and general rants.  The Barnum Effect post was particularly [...]

]]> By: Derren Brown Quiz http://www.lostaddress.org/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/comment-page-1#comment-13467 Derren Brown Quiz Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:38:26 +0000 http://www.lostaddress.org/index.php/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/#comment-13467 This experiment was repeated by English psychological illusionist Derren Brown on different people from different countries with similar results- he asked for birthday, and some personal object and went away to "produce" his "personal" readings. Most people were amazed at the "accuracy" of their readings- until Derren asked eveyone to swap readings, even then they swapped them several times before they realised that all the radings were the same! My recent post <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/derren-brown-quiz" target="_blank">Quiz: How much do you know about Derren Brown? updated Tue Dec 1 2009 3:01 am EST</a> This experiment was repeated by English psychological illusionist Derren Brown on different people from different countries with similar results- he asked for birthday, and some personal object and went away to "produce" his "personal" readings. Most people were amazed at the "accuracy" of their readings- until Derren asked eveyone to swap readings, even then they swapped them several times before they realised that all the radings were the same!
My recent post Quiz: How much do you know about Derren Brown? updated Tue Dec 1 2009 3:01 am EST

]]> By: SimonGreetham http://www.lostaddress.org/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/comment-page-1#comment-12978 SimonGreetham Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:49:43 +0000 http://www.lostaddress.org/index.php/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/#comment-12978 HaHa.. this technique is widely used by the road side cold readers in my country, India! Forer (Barum) Effect at least helps some people to earn for their living, they should thank him for this!! HaHa.. this technique is widely used by the road side cold readers in my country, India! Forer (Barum) Effect at least helps some people to earn for their living, they should thank him for this!!

]]> By: Place of Stuff » Blog Archive » What Is Cold Reading? http://www.lostaddress.org/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/comment-page-1#comment-11716 Place of Stuff » Blog Archive » What Is Cold Reading? Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:23:05 +0000 http://www.lostaddress.org/index.php/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/#comment-11716 [...] been pretty lax in my posting.  Back in 2007, I posted about the Forer Effect and had every intention of following it up.  Now yoou know why I [...] [...] been pretty lax in my posting.  Back in 2007, I posted about the Forer Effect and had every intention of following it up.  Now yoou know why I [...]

]]> By: James@women fashion dresses http://www.lostaddress.org/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/comment-page-1#comment-11712 James@women fashion dresses Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:07:26 +0000 http://www.lostaddress.org/index.php/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/#comment-11712 I read about the Forer effect a few years ago. It convinced me that all the cold-reading stuff is not real. Made me skeptic about the fortune tellers in our world. I read about the Forer effect a few years ago. It convinced me that all the cold-reading stuff is not real. Made me skeptic about the fortune tellers in our world.

]]> By: gunluk burclar http://www.lostaddress.org/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/comment-page-1#comment-11268 gunluk burclar Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:48:24 +0000 http://www.lostaddress.org/index.php/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/#comment-11268 informative and interesting article thanks for that informative and interesting article
thanks for that

]]> By: Andrew http://www.lostaddress.org/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/comment-page-1#comment-10559 Andrew Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:59:58 +0000 http://www.lostaddress.org/index.php/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/#comment-10559 They do seem a little 'old horoscope' type comments to me. Its hard to tell now as some of the new horoscope reports seem more meaningful these days. I visited a small town in America that was full of psychics and I was a little nervous. They do seem a little ‘old horoscope’ type comments to me. Its hard to tell now as some of the new horoscope reports seem more meaningful these days. I visited a small town in America that was full of psychics and I was a little nervous.

]]> By: Winken de Worde http://www.lostaddress.org/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/comment-page-1#comment-9497 Winken de Worde Tue, 06 May 2008 09:02:36 +0000 http://www.lostaddress.org/index.php/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/#comment-9497 For background about Jung types check out <a href="http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html</a> Ray's horoscope comment is bang on. It's simply Old Age 'wisdom' recycled for the New Age. For background about Jung types check out http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html

Ray’s horoscope comment is bang on. It’s simply Old Age ‘wisdom’ recycled for the New Age.

]]> By: burçlar http://www.lostaddress.org/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/comment-page-1#comment-9475 burçlar Sat, 03 May 2008 15:22:42 +0000 http://www.lostaddress.org/index.php/2007/10/21/the-forer-effect-aka-the-barnum-effect/#comment-9475 very interesting :) very interesting :)

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