A&E Special: Psychic Children (on now)

[Victus]

Tune in, join me for a chuckle. Highlights to date...

"she didn't score above chance"

"I knew I would get a dog for my birthday, I just didn't tell anyone"

Victus wrote

Tune in, join me for a chuckle. Highlights to date...

"she didn't score above chance"

"I knew I would get a dog for my birthday, I just didn't tell anyone"

I can link to a few scientific studies that scored significantly above chance, above the 95% confidence level accepted by scientific standards. Of course that proves nothing.

Does that include the one with the N=4 sample size? :lol:

Evil_Mage_Ra wrote

Does that include the one with the N=4 sample size? :lol:

I think there were others too. Interesting still.

It's called cold reading.


If not, by all means post. I'm always up for tearing apart a poorly conducted study.

[Victus]

Lurker wrote

I can link to a few scientific studies that scored significantly above chance, above the 95% confidence level accepted by scientific standards. Of course that proves nothing.

Please, link every last one of them.

I love the narrative tone of the special. It's so clearly implies that these people are for real.

That fat teenager was clearly bullshit:
-"I'm picking up that you and your father have STOPPED talking" (she's implying they were in some stable relationship and then had a falling out)
-"Umm, well I never met him."

This is not a positive claim since it somewhat contradicts what the person actually experienced.

They also spoke of telepathic twins ("It's common for twins to be telepathic, not pyshcic however."). I turned it off after that statement.

If you hang with a person enough, you can "tune in" on their thoughts. I think everone here, except for a few, know what I mean. They know what you are going to say because they have heard your stuck record many times before. Telepathic twins are a classic example- they have been near each other since conception, and experienced massively what the other has experienced- be it just to the left or right of the other. Of course, they "know" what the other is thinking. We are not really all that original in the "thought" department.

Lurker wrote

I think there were others too. Interesting still.

It can hardly be considered interesting or significant with a sample size of 4.