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bngbuck
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 Posted - 11/09/2007 : 10:50:35
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The poor bastard sure failed to read that lady's mind in Bermuda!
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
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Posted - 11/09/2007 : 14:07:36 [Permalink]
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| Surprised? Not really. |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 11/09/2007 : 14:28:35 [Permalink]
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Dr. Mabuse.....
I didn't understand a word you said! |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 11/09/2007 : 14:46:40 [Permalink]
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Old trick, there is a high statistical probability (well known to magicians) that when shown 6 cards the majority of people will pick the second from the left.
Geller did this one on the Phenomenon TV show a couple weeks back, failry unimpressive results. A slim majority of the audience picked the card.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 11/09/2007 : 14:48:40 [Permalink]
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Dude.....
Pick the second from the right! |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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Posted - 11/09/2007 : 15:05:21 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Old trick, there is a high statistical probability (well known to magicians) that when shown 6 cards the majority of people will pick the second from the left.
Geller did this one on the Phenomenon TV show a couple weeks back, failry unimpressive results. A slim majority of the audience picked the card.
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Really? I don't doubt it since it actually worked on me. (I hate it when "magic" tricks work on me like that...) But is there some sort of published work on this? I'd love to read it. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 11/09/2007 : 15:35:20 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Originally posted by Dude
Old trick, there is a high statistical probability (well known to magicians) that when shown 6 cards the majority of people will pick the second from the left.
Geller did this one on the Phenomenon TV show a couple weeks back, failry unimpressive results. A slim majority of the audience picked the card.
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Really? I don't doubt it since it actually worked on me. (I hate it when "magic" tricks work on me like that...) But is there some sort of published work on this? I'd love to read it.
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Randi mentioned it in Swift, I think, last week, maybe?
Geller used the star card, if I remember correctly.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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pleco
SFN Addict
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Posted - 11/09/2007 : 15:43:25 [Permalink]
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| And I just thought it was that none of the cards in the second set are in the first. |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 11/09/2007 : 17:14:59 [Permalink]
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Pleco.....
You ought to go for Randi's $1M. You're supernaturally quick! |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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dv82matt
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 11/09/2007 : 20:27:28 [Permalink]
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All the cards have changed. None of them were in the original selection as Pleco said.
Richard Wiesman used the trick at TAM4 as a demonstration on how we deceive ourselves. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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