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Originally Posted by Venom  If you read my post, you'll see that my only point about sensory clue is the first one. The second one, knowledge about what would seem specific to a lot of people, but in reality is not specific at all, is still completely valid.
And the voice can give away informations too (your a man or a woman, if you have confidence in your voice at the beginning of the call or not, the fact that you don't want to answer by yes or no means you are in some way skeptical of the claim, and so on).
But anyway, ok, I missed the idea that this was on the phone only, but of course there is still the problem of the evaluation of what is consider a hit or a miss. He says:
The main argument here is that most of the people evaluate like a hit something that is not really a hint.
It's what we call "fallacy of personal validation". The Forer effect works on the phone as well.  Forer effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Of course having his wife helping is a nice idea, and a cute one, but still it doesn't help the fact that they will find hit where in fact there is none.
Maybe he will pretend that the psychic could say real specific stuff, like the name of the company he works with, or the number on his identitiy card. But if this medium can do that (and he's really not doing any "hot reading"), well this medium should apply right away for the Million Dollar Challenge. |
My suggestions for the psyic readinng were for a DIY exercise anyone can perform to gain personal experience of this phenomena.
I don't know why I waited as long as I did before expereinceing a psychic reading fristhand. It's the differecne between having someone explain what it's like to swim in the ocean versuses dong it yourself.
The protocol I suggested is derived from Gary Schartz's experiments. They were a useful way for me to control the psychic reading and use it for my purposes -- confirming the validity of the psychic phenomena.
As far as the actualy experiemnts in this area, take a look at Gary Schwartz's work. They've controlled for every possible informatiopn leak... they use an email exchange so no part of the voice can be used... they blind the sitter, reader and even the raters and experiementers. Their results are still highly significant... and widely ignored.