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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by coliveira on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:01AM (#22065736)
This is also very similar to the horoscope.
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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by ajscanlan on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:00PM (#22066389)
I believe that's the Barnum effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by n4r9 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:29PM (#22066715)
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.
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