Basically it's a contextual trick that exploits our pattern recognition pareidolia, like faces in clouds or horoscopes or cold reads.
It's not its code. It "cold read" what you wanted from the questioning itself.
Cold readings commonly employ high-probability guesses, quickly picking up on signals as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not, then emphasizing and reinforcing chance connections and quickly moving on from missed guesses. Psychologists believe that this appears to work because of the Forer effect and due to confirmation biases within people.
Basically it's a contextual trick that exploits our pattern recognition pareidolia, like faces in clouds or horoscopes or cold reads.
It's not its code. It "cold read" what you wanted from the questioning itself.
Cold readings commonly employ high-probability guesses, quickly picking up on signals as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not, then emphasizing and reinforcing chance connections and quickly moving on from missed guesses. Psychologists believe that this appears to work because of the Forer effect and due to confirmation biases within people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading