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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @DesertDave OP 19 Dec \ parent \ on: If I told you, "I am psychic", would you believe me? alter_native
What is cold reading?
Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums. Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of information by analyzing the person's body language, age, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. during a line of questioning. Cold readings commonly employ high-probability guesses, quickly picking up on signals as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not. The reader then emphasizes and reinforces any accurate connections while quickly moving on from missed guesses.
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The movie Nightmare Alley features and discusses a similar technique. It’s very interesting to watch
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That makes sense. I think that people that have these abilities are just sensitive an are able to take in lot of information. Thank you for sharing. I learned something new.
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It's my pleasure
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This is called "heuristics" and everyone does this daily (not in a paranormal way). It's aka "common sense." Like everything though, there are wide ranges of skill levels. Some people pay attention to others, consciously or not, and can aggregate and assemble all those clues you mention. Some people pay no attention at all to others, like someone comes into work after a family conflict, stress onbtheir face, not "put together well", and Mr. Its all about me says, "Wow you look terrible." We all know people like that! An astute reader if clues would put things together, sense a hard time, maybe have empathy, then either ease into a kind word or simply give space and say nothing.
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