10th February 2006, 1:38 PM
There is cold reading, general statements that apply to anyone, warm reading, statements based on cues you pick up looking at someone, and then there is hot reading, statements you picked up via secret channels.
http://www.randi.org/pianoproblem.wmv
Behold! Psychic powers at their finest!
http://www.randi.org/pianoproblem.wmv
Behold! Psychic powers at their finest!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)