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Originally posted by mech
The show lasts 3 hours and they condense it down to 22 minutes. What you don't see is that he throws out hundreds of tidbits and on the few lucky ones, a lot of the time based on reading peoples expressions from his previous questions and making educated guesses, he hits (which is statistically bound to happen) and they edit those for broadcast.
When he does make a hit most believers will instantly forget the 99 previous failed questions he gave and latch on to the single he got correct. In conducted experiments people even forget that the psychic asked the previous 99 questions and believe he only asked the one that was correct. Hence you get the affidavit statements at the end of the show.
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Exactly. This is why he talks so fast during his "reading." The fast talk is designed to gloss over the mistakes ... so people will only rememember the few "hits" ... after they indicate that he's gotten something right ...
Of course, video editing is even better ... cause you can eliminate the mistakes all together ...
It's called "retrofitting" ... emphasizing the few accurate predictions and conveniently forgetting the vast majority of mistakes ...