nebula Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 This guy only had the people's gender and date/time/place of birth yet he was accurate 77% of the time. How is it possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midniterider Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 He was 77% accurate to telling them vague generalities about stuff they already knew. But whether woo or no woo, of what use is it? Tell me the winning lottery numbers or it is a waste of time. :-) It reminds me of John Edward and that Long Island Psychic lady. They talk to dead people. Whether or not it is real, the dead person is dead. Not coming back. Waste of time chatting. Unless the dead guy knows the winning lottery numbers. :-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpheliaGinger Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 This guy only had the people's gender and date/time/place of birth yet he was accurate 77% of the time. How is it possible? You might be surprised in what knowing a person's birth location and generation can possibly tell about them (plus you add in cold reading where you examine their body language and how they are dressed). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhampir Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 why only 77% of the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mymistake Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 He was 77% accurate to telling them vague generalities about stuff they already knew. But whether woo or no woo, of what use is it? With the right mark you can milk money out of them. Errr . . . or at least that is the word on the street. Tell me the winning lottery numbers or it is a waste of time. :-) It reminds me of John Edward and that Long Island Psychic lady. They talk to dead people. Whether or not it is real, the dead person is dead. Not coming back. Waste of time chatting. Unless the dead guy knows the winning lottery numbers. :-) Or you can make an entertaining show that makes big money by selling advertising space. Again $$$ for the guy or gal who can make the predictions. It's not lottery big but maybe it beats working hard for minimum wage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Margee Posted April 7, 2012 Moderator Share Posted April 7, 2012 I really enjoyed that! If I was wishing to believe anything at all...it would be astrology. I love the information about the stars. I am amazed that my Scorpio personality is exactly as they say it is, with the exception of a couple of things. I had a 'spooky' prediction read for me at age 19, done by someone here who worked for the police. It took months to get in an see her. When she told me of the 'thing' that I would experience in my life, I laughed like hell because it was crazy to me what she said....but sure enough...it came true!! I think people can make good, generalized guesses. I know I could be a fake fortune teller because I know how to read people, but I would love to believe that some are actually 'gifted'. Just me still wanting to believe in 'magical experience'......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midniterider Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 He was 77% accurate to telling them vague generalities about stuff they already knew. But whether woo or no woo, of what use is it? With the right mark you can milk money out of them. Errr . . . or at least that is the word on the street. Tell me the winning lottery numbers or it is a waste of time. :-) It reminds me of John Edward and that Long Island Psychic lady. They talk to dead people. Whether or not it is real, the dead person is dead. Not coming back. Waste of time chatting. Unless the dead guy knows the winning lottery numbers. :-) Or you can make an entertaining show that makes big money by selling advertising space. Again $$$ for the guy or gal who can make the predictions. It's not lottery big but maybe it beats working hard for minimum wage. Ok ok, I understand the predator psychic's objective. I meant the psychic's prey. Is it really worth listening to some idiot tell you about yourself? Or tell you about a deceased relative? :-) I suppose these shows like John Edward rake in money from two sources. The gullible and people who like to make fun of them. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurisaz Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Is it worth the time listening to someone telling you things about yourself? That depends on what insights are told, and how the teller arrives at them. Sadly, astrology might sound cool (I admit I kind of like some of the concepts) but is bullcrap. As always when this topic creeps up, I'd like to point everyone who's interested to the Bad Astronomer's page on astrology, where he nicely explains why all this crap cannot possibly work http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/astrology.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator florduh Posted April 9, 2012 Super Moderator Share Posted April 9, 2012 http://www.lybrary.com/free_ebooks/learning_to_cold_read.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deva Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 I really enjoyed that! If I was wishing to believe anything at all...it would be astrology. I love the information about the stars. I am amazed that my Scorpio personality is exactly as they say it is, with the exception of a couple of things. Yes. I have gained a lot of insight from the study of my own chart (I am not a typical Cancerian). Generally, if someone gives me their date, place, and time of birth - I can get a good picture of the personality. Its like a roadmap for general personality traits. It goes way beyond the sun sign. It is accurate, although some charts are harder to read than others, and all require a lot of study. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hereticzero Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 This guy only had the people's gender and date/time/place of birth yet he was accurate 77% of the time. How is it possible? The guy knows his astrology. He can claim to be a Christian or some other Woo's right hand man but it makes no difference. Most people read their own horoscopes and will nod like any good bobble head when someone else repeats what they already know. Carney tricks are a dime a dozen. How about a psychic that actually does the world some good. They were all asleep on 9-11-2001. It's a terrible world when terrorists have a cloud of concealment in their bag of tricks that hides them from the prying eyes of psychics and Pat Robertson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwc Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 The TV Guide horoscope used to be right most of the time too. Sometimes it was wrong though. But mostly it was right. The listings were usually right too. Sometimes they were wrong though. But mostly they were right. mwc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilcoppertop Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 I agree with a lot of you. What is the point in all this? Especially the ones where you PAY to have them tell you about yourself. Don't they generally tell you what you already know? I think I'll stick to my (non-astrologist) best friend who tells me things about myself and doesn't charge for it. If it really is true, though, I wouldn't mind being the astrologist and having a little insight on people myself. =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted April 11, 2012 Author Share Posted April 11, 2012 OK, what about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 It's a double development. In the "olden" days before photoshop you could (and still can) develop one negative over another and make a composite. I am sure there is a more technical term for it, I just can't remember what it is. I only do digital photography. It could also be a double exposure. That's when you take a picture but don't advance the film. Then you take another picture over the previous image on the negative. When photographers worked with larger negative plates it was common to try to do those things. My actual question about that photo is, what idiot put the property stamp on the back of it? You don't do that to archival art because it bleeds through. And it shows up in the scan like the center of the pic. Sorry, I just had to rant at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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