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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  I think it [mediumship] can all be explained by cold reading, hot reading, confirmation bias, and probability. But I'm happy to be convinced otherwise. |
If we now take proxy sittings as a subset of all mediumship studies, then cold reading has probably effectively been ruled out in these studies. That would mean that you would need to show how the results of the studies in this subset can be explained by hot reading, confirmation bias, and probability. I would think, though, that we can probably rule out hot reading in this subset too, as the investigators who used proxies also took pains to keep the medium in ignorance of who the real sitter was. So it would appear there would have been no opportunity for the medium to do hot reading. That leaves confirmation bias and probability to be considered.