Try this ESP Experiment

Tango,

Very good, in fact excellent but not really what it seems. Like most
people, I found this to be doing a very good job of "READING MY MIND"
for about 5 mins but then I did the science thing and tested it, with
nothing more than a good look and a bit of thinking it soon became
obvious what was happening.

The answer below, if you want to work it out yourself don't go down and
read it;

The answer,

What he is doing is very simple, the trap is one that many fall into,
people who are certain of what is going to happen or have a large
investment in an outcome. In a way it is the same kind of problem we
have with people only thinking that a planet is the place to build a
colony. He is giving us exactly what we are expecting, first he TELLS us
what is going to happen and then he gives us what looks like what we are
expecting. He shows us 6 cards and asks us to pick one and then he shows
us 5 cards and tells us that the one we picked is not there. Most people
will not be able to remember what 6 cards they are shown and if you look
you will find that none of the first 6 are shown in the second lot of 5.
He gives us 6 picture cards and then 5 different picture cards and tells
us that the card we picked from the first 6 is not in the second 5. This
is true but you then draw the wrong conclusion because he has told you
what to expect and so you trick yourself into agreeing with him, a good
magic trick.

Very Good.

Darren Brown

From: victoriatangoman [mailto:tango_dancer@...]
Sent: Friday, 6 August 2004 4:33 PM
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [spacesettlers] Try this ESP Experiment

Ha ha. Let's see how long it takes for some of you programming
whiz's to figure out how the prediction rate is so high. LOL.

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/esp.html

TangoMan

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