Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”
by coliveira on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:01AM
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This is also very similar to the horoscope.
Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”
by ajscanlan on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:00PM
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I believe that's the Barnum effect.
Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”
by n4r9 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:29PM
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The UK mentalist Derren Brown has a brilliant example passage of this in his 2007 book "Tricks of the Mind". It was all about what you felt like as a child and your relationship to your parents. Very clever. I remember showing it to a friend at university who became extremely emotional and couldn't believe it wasn't tailored to them.
Fascinating how it's the same thing "mediums" use to say there's some person speaking to them from beyond the grave, with a message for someone whose name begin with M...