Psychics, Explained

How do television psychics appear to be so successful? This article explains how it is done, complete with annotated transcripts of actual psychic readings, so you can see the techniques used by the psychics. And those techniques boil down to something called “cold reading”, which anyone can do, no psychic ability required. As you will see by reading the article, psychics rarely if ever come up with new information on their own, they simply use the information you give them, and they are very good at covering up their misses, which are frequent. (Link via Off On A Tangent)