This is the post I had planned to make before I messed up. As someone with an interest in the various tricks that psychics, mediums, tarot readers and similar use, Ian Brodie‘s suggestion that I read this book was welcome. Ian Rowland is a very clear and concise writer and clearly has a love for [...]
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The Full Facts book of Cold Reading by Ian Rowland
12 February 2009, 9:55 pm
Filed under Books, Skeptical Stories.
Tagged astrology, cold reading, derren brown, learning, psychics, skeptic, skepticism, tarot
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What Is Cold Reading?
4 January 2009, 5:22 pm
I’ve been pretty lax in my posting. Back in 2007, I posted about the Forer Effect and had every intention of following it up. Now you know why I don’t make New Year’s resolutions! To rectify that, let’s talk about cold reading. With the Forer (or Barnum) Effect, we saw how making generalised, non-specific statements [...]
Filed under Skeptical Stories.
Tagged cold reading, psychic, psychics, psychology, reading, sceptics, skeptic, skeptical, skeptics
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