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Re:Ask HN: What do you guys think of Tarot or other metaphys... by giantg2 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @03:42PM (#31087972)
True. Calling BS on magic is fine. But it could also be wrong to claim tarot is complete BS. It's possible the effects of a tarot reading are explainable by things like observation bias, the subject changing their behaviors due to the reading, or the reader using some sort of body language reading to influence their "interpretation" of the cards.
Re:Ask HN: What do you guys think of Tarot or other metaphys... by IceMetalPunk on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:13PM (#31089279)
Let's be clear in our definitions here: when people say "Tarot is BS", they don't mean "it can never get the right result"; they mean "it doesn't get the right result through some mystical, spiritual, or divine knowledge as the practitioners of Tarot often claim it does". Additionally, if a Tarot practitioner does not make such claims, and instead points to any of the psychological explanations you mentioned, then the cards are no longer relevant to the practice anyway since they are not involved in the true mechanisms.