Orson Welles on Cold Reading

Orson Welles discusses the nature of 'cold reading', a type of analysis used by many phony psychics and fortune tellers to trick their customers into thinking they indeed do have special powers, and how some can become so skilled at it that they actually trick themselves into believing they are truly psychic.

[@MrBuch169169]

"The occupational disease of fraudulance." That's brilliant.

[@hibob418]

Yes, on display currently in the White House. Donald Trump actually believing he's a god.

[@brunocoriolano]

"The occupational disease of fraudulence."

[@okubothecat]

@@hibob418 whats it like being so psychotically obsessed with a person that you can't even watch an utterly unrelated video without bringing them up in the comment section?

[@forestgeorge8855]

Ah ... the occupational disease of fraudulence.

[@dundaravewine2390]

Daily life?

[@65g4]

i could listen to Orson talk all day magnificent voice

[@smorrow]

Are you pondering what I'm pondering

[@antonelabakavic4045]

Ikr. Me too. And he is amazing story teller, very funny and interesting

[@eggbertinkabod1121]

KELSEY GRAMMER'S VOICE MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH BETTER , U IDIOT FUCK.

[@daithimac5785]

@@eggbertinkabod1121 wow.....Nothing like youtube to remind you of all the mentally ill people out in the real world...thanks for that....get back to eating your crayons now

[@rsr789]

Especially when he declares his love for Mrs. Paul's Frozen Fish Sticks.

[@Gitfiddle]

Orson Welles is one of the most interesting people to have ever walked the earth. He was an amazing person.

[@birdiedog5]

the man was really interesting, I love to listen to all of his interviews now. I was only very small when he passed away

[@russellcampbell9198]

Yes.

[@kajgenell]

well, one of the few

[@dougfredricks2017]

There's nothing like the great communicators of yesteryear. It's 2022 and with all the technology genuine conversation is almost non-existent.

[@jamesshride3158]

Apparently he was also a complete bastard.

[@mattleemattlee123]

Welles is the best. He can take a story like that and make you hang on every word. The obvious relish he had for this kind of thing is just wonderful. I love how, when he says "...between the ages of thirteen and fifteen, a great change..." his eyes narrow and the face become that of a nefarious hypnotist. The consummate actor. Forget Dos Equis. THIS was the most interesting man in the world.

[@benjoplin4727]

mattleemattlee123 bravo, yes he was the most interesting man in the last 100 years for sure

[@ThekiBoran]

He did an interview with a British fellow in London I believe in the late 50s or so and was speaking with a slightly British accent. As far as being the most interesting man in the last 100 years, that might be true, but there's no question he's one of the best as telling his experiences in a way that is captivating.

[@rjkral]

I don't always agree that the Dos Equis guy was not the most interesting man in the world, but when I do, it's this!

[@glennhart4818]

1:45 to 1:47 "...and they have a name for it..." These couple of seconds are evidence to me that Orson Welles was a person who reveled in learning something new and reveled in sharing his knowledge with others. His face, his demeanor, and his voice are all absolutely radiant with joy at this point. What a fascinating, talented, marvelous man was Orson Welles!

[@waynej2608]

@Nocentre Noborder Orson had large appetites. It's who he was. And thank God, he came along. I have a huge appetite for his work.

[@waynej2608]

@Nocentre Noborder I have one for the arts, i.e. classic film like A Touch of Evil.

[@azzamatic4190]

He just exposed physic John Edwards, before he even started his career

[@j.d.buchanan4897]

"physic" lol

[@azzamatic4190]

It's a typo, get over it or grow up

[@jasondoe2596]

Azzamatic, oh, and I thought it was shorthand for a "psychic physicist"...

[@nesagwa]

Before we had machines called computers, a computer was someone who physically sat down and did math. The term has been around for centuries.

[@simonp37]

First known use was in 1613.

[@kamuelalee]

Computation.

[@frank234561]

Abacus.

[@TonyB34]

Thanks for enlightening me. I was quite confused when he said that, chronologically speaking.

[@Cinqmil]

One of the smartest explanations I ever heard about Cold Reading and the crooks that do it.

[@childofthesun32]

You watch impressions and paraodies of Orson Welles and the script they wrote for the sketch has him speaking in really overblown, uncommon English with large expressive and complex words. Then you watch a video of Orson Welles for real... And he's just talking like a normal person.

[@tb4544]

He was a fun and easy person to lampoon. Everyone had an impression of him. I think it was mostly out of reverence.

[@JoggingOnTheMoon]

he's always fun to listen to

[@SnerdWilliams]

It's a damn shame that the world will never have another Orson Welles.

[@jupiterlegrand4817]

A shame for certain, but there could only EVER be one Orson Welles!

[@jim.....]

never underestimate intuition

[@G1337]

Never overestimate it, either

[@RAVENMoonTarot]

Thank you

[@stevecooper3010]

True

[@taranullius9221]

It's not intuition he's describing though. That's the diversion you took. The intuition part was him explaining how "shut eyes" happen as an aside, not what he's actually talking about. Cold reading is 100% conscious, deliberate and manipulative.

[@n0tyham]

This is when talk shows were unscripted, and had intelligent, talented and interesting guests. Now talk shows are just vehicles to plug books, CD's, movies, TV shows, plays, etc. I remember the Carson show was the most fun when his guests went off-script and he lost control of the show. Those were the days :-)

[@jchristopher74]

That was one of the things I loved about Craig Ferguson - he just had a conversation, and it was great to watch.

[@TheBelegur]

Cold reading was never explained better.

[@SuspenseESCAPEremastered]

William N. Robson said Welles was the ONLY actor who could walk in to the studio and instantly play any character (on the radio) on a script he's never read before.

[@FranklinW]

He wasn't talking about being able to stare into people's souls, he was talking about people being so good at appearing to be able to do that that they don't even realize that they're doing it.

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

Anybody ever notice how closely Orson Welles resembles Jonathan Winters? Both were geniuses, big bear-like guys, and nobody really knew what to do with them...

[@Fyodor48]

Orson and Raymond Burr two of the best ever American actors voices. In the UK we had probably the best ever actors vocals in Richard Burton.

[@buddmannable]

Host David Frost did a great job of just letting Mr. Welles speak without interruption. Kimmel et. al. would have interrupted, try (unsuccessfully) to be funny and then insult Trump.

[@frankmcclusky7870]

Orson Welles had the best stories and the best manner of telling them

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

Just like Theresa Caputo, Sylvia Browne, John Edward and the rest of those ghoulish thieves.

[@chesterbesterfeild]

The way he describes a "shuteye" with the hotel clerk analogy is what I believe "intuition" is. Your brain has come up with an answer to a question that you didnt know to ask. Your intuition tells you to run away from something because your brain has recognized you are in trouble far before you have

[@chesterbesterfeild]

***** That may have been the inspiration for the name

[@chesterbesterfeild]

***** .....wut?

[@roguishpaladin]

The idea behind being a shuteye is that you've learned to heuristically jump to a conclusion without realizing it. In many cases this can be helpful, especially when the judgment in question is not important or if there is an immutable urgency to the question. It's the same way we learn to pull our hands away from hot burners. Daniel Kahneman refers to this as System 1 thought. System 1 thought can be dangerous, though. When there is importance and no time pressure, it is vital that we stop and consider sincerely our decision making process, attempting to mitigate for the biased thinking that we will bring to the table. This is called System 2 thought. More information about this can be found by looking at any of Kahneman's work, but the most accessible is Thinking: Fast and Slow. It's a worthwhile read.

[@fradrake11]

And a lightbulb in my head just let up 🧠

[@GenerationX1984]

Orson Welles was also a voice actor. I believe he did voice acting for old radio shows when he was younger. His last voice acting role was Unicron in Transformers: The Movie.

[@cllewis1]

Did the voice of The Brain on Animaniacs as well /sarcasm

[@viviandarkbloom100]

This is such a brilliant insight into human Psychology.

[@6663000]

One of the best speakers of all time.

[@bigbastard3712]

For those that don't know, this is actually a good Psychology clip. Without even realizing it, without likely ever having known an ounce of Academic Psychology, Orson Welles has effectively described the mind's Dual-Processing mechanism. There are two tracks of 'Consciousness,': Implicit and Explicit. As an example offered in one of my Psychology Texts, you go out and see a Hummingbird. While you are actively aware--Explicit Processing--that the thing is called a Hummingbird, that it's wings are fluttering, that it is drinking nectar to survive, you are 'Subconsciously' taking note of the varying hues in it's body, the exact rate of speed of its wings, its exact height from the ground, the actual and exact Rate of Speed of its wings and so forth. All the latter information is encoded and itemized and catalogues without your even being aware of it. Orson Wells nails the concept perfectly. Yet ANOTHER reason he's one of the Greats! :)

[@hibob418]

Imagine that - a man who actually has something to say.

[@bobstevens3265]

Every man has something to say, the problem is it's rarely original.

[@joseph_b319]

I work for the cable company fixing cable tv, internet and phone and I can tell everything about what kind of situation I'm going to be walking into just by looking at their front door and hearing their voice on the phone. I've been fixing people cable service for almost 11 years.

[@joseph_b319]

Spidey senses are one thing, but making up shit to tell the person what will happen in their future and throwing a bunch of general stuff at someone that can apply to anybody is another thing.

[@RAVENMoonTarot]

They should be exposed but does it mean every cable man does that? No I met cable guys who told me the way to go cheaper and not to purchase certain things

[@pixie631]

He's so eloquent, charming and intelligent could listen to him all night what a great story

[@randysager3523]

Orson never said what he did was real. Magicians don't make claims that they are real either. I should know I have been a magician for over 40 years.

[@obaidCarkey]

This is a man who is needed in any time in history and future! movies, radio, tv were just tools to get his message across!

[@ShimmySnail]

There is so much wisdom here.

[@theq5369]

I'm glad that he's admitting that even though he was able to figure out what other people think, he is just a magician and not a physic

[@inyourgenes]

"Fake fortune teller"......is there another kind?

[@KairuHakubi]

This is the exact age where he looked like The Brain. it's amazing that was just a coincidence

[@latergator915]

Are the people that watch interviews of Orson Welles really the same people that engage in "youtube exchanges"? And I thought there was some sanctuary.

[@beamoflaser]

What a great storyteller

[@rsr789]

Yeah... he should have written Hollywood movies...

[@ernestbrown9660]

You should track down the one where he talks about meeting the Nazi leadership before they took over Germany.

[@tuxguys]

Was there ever a better raconteur, ever? I think not.

[@denisdaly1708]

Peter Ustinov was up there with him. But no others.

[@fradrake11]

Billy Connolly lol

[@Grahf0]

Unicron can do cold readings. I can just hear him now, taking to one of the Deceptions or Autobots. "I see you go thru many transformations throughout your life..." "Wha... how did you... Impossible!"

[@JoshSweetvale]

Grahf0 Best bad joke I ever read.

[@Attyn99]

LOL, Comment "gold"!!!

[@antonelabakavic4045]

LMAO

[@dildonius]

I do hope that you know him as more than Unicron. Cuz he was so so so SO much more.

[@sirsidfosse1313]

1st heard Him in 1946 opening "Duel in the Sun". After a few words I thought "Who the hell is that?" I was 6.

[@thehotyounggrandpas8207]

I would change all of my friends (the three of them) for Orson Welles any day!

[@RIDDICK0911]

Wow! What a good "friend" you are...

[@MTdaBlacking]

I wonder if someone made a chart of typical cold reading statements and arranged it by common denominators like age brackets, economic situations, genders, etc. 🤔 Could be useful in countering scammers!

[@ThunderChunky101]

I had a similar case. A woman told my mother that not only had she just got married the previous week, but had also bought new curtains. I told my mum that it was easily deduced. She was playing with her ring because it was new as most people do, and that had no tan line, even though it was summer Back then moving to a new home after marriage was extremely common, and buying new curtains is the FIRST thing most do when decorating. Elementary, Watson.

[@cheeriosinabowl]

What an absolute treat and privilege to listen and watch someone like Orson. He's highly intelligent, entertaining, charismatic, interesting, you name it. I wish he was still here with us. We just don't have people like that anymore. We're all just DUMBED DOWN and BORING!

[@MrHEC381991]

Frost interviewing Welles - WHERE'S THE REST OF IT!?

[@EvansRowan123]

Atheism is statistically correlated with high intelligence. Therefore, high intelligence does not cause belief in god. Therefore, saying "you're just too stupid to believe it" is wrong even if God is real.

[@mtszabo]

@particle409 True. In my 20's I used to walk into the bar, scan the room, and pick out the chick who wanted to get out of there and get busy. Once you get good at reading body language, you have a very high success rate.

[@Bfdidc]

Along these lines, Welles did a movie called "F is for Fake" that is about cons. It's worth a look.

[@grantdrummond]

This is the guy who got Nixon to confess (they made a movie about it) - modern interviewers take heed: talk less, listen more. Love David Frost (and Orson Welles) national treasure

[@nobodynoone2500]

The new cold-readers are advertising algorithms. Creepier than any "psychic".

[@davidepintus6490]

This reminds me of how Sherlock Holmes claimed to come to a d3duction so fast that he had to take time to travk the train of thought that brought him there.

[@ChrisMaxfieldActs]

He's fictional.

[@joemarshall4226]

@@ChrisMaxfieldActs But the techniques he used are not. Holmes was copied from the Poe character C Auguste Dupin in The Murders on The Rue Morgue. And the techniques can be used in reverse.....to mold a person's mind into thinking a certain way....media outlets do it all the time. Moldimg your mind into believing, or fearing, all kinds of things......they can make people go to war, spend all their money, think the word is coming to an end, self-destruct, etc....

[@ernestbrown9660]

@@joemarshall4226 Yes, Dr. John Bell, Conan Doyle's old medical professor, did -inductive- reasoning about his patients that way, serving as Sherlock's real-life inspiration.

[@henrykujawa4427]

I once explained about deductive reasoning... and the two people I was telling it to left me completely flabbergasted, by suddenly INSISTING, as if it was the most important fact in the history of the world, that i was talking about a FICTIONAL character, and he "only" did what he did because a writer "DECIDED" he could. and here I am, a lifelong writer of fiction in my spare time, and these IDIOTS are trying, or think they are trying, to "explain" to ME, the difference between "reality" and "fiction". The more I work for them (as a home health aide), sadly, tragically, the more I'm convinced that they've either been brainwashed, or have simply become so CYNICAL, that they don't believe in any real possibility of positive change in the world.

[@particle409]

This is spot on. We do this every day, reading body language and facial expressions without even realizing it. If you had to give directions on how to do it, it would be nearly impossible, but we've evolved to be able to read all these little things in the back of our brains.

[@OldeAtheist]

@dethklok745 The actor who does the voice of the Brain is Maurice LaMarche who does the best Orson Welles impression every. He also does multiple voices on Futurama.

[@geinikan1kan]

Brilliant. Someone ought to riff off Welles' little talk here to do a history of psychic fraud. The "argot" of the trade. I love it.

[@mattleemattlee123]

Actually, Welles himself did in a way. It's called "F is for Fake". Not specifically about psychics, but it's a neat, really quirky film.

[@geinikan1kan]

Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.

[@taranullius9221]

Yeah they're called magicians and mentalists who've been debunking this stuff since Houdini (and probably earlier). They're still doing it - people like Derren Brown and Penn and Teller and the (now) late James Randi.

[@taranullius9221]

Welles learned it from the same place they did and I did. Magicians who came before him.

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Brilliant man. Better looking with a beard, IMHO.

[@itsallrhythm]

Imagine losing your husband then only one week later going to see THE Orson Welles, and he immediately reads your mind and tells you what's wrong...

[@kiwitrainguy]

That's just it, he didn't read her mind. He noticed that she was wearing a bright print dress and was (probably) middle-aged and picked out being widowed as the most likely recent event in her life.

[@trutyger09]

This man basically described modern day televangelism before it got out of control.

[@taranullius9221]

Yes, it's almost like magicians worked this out before he was even born as their art is also inherently manipulative and deceptive and some dude, minor fellow, Harry something...made it his business to debunk seances and spiritualists and psychics and magicians have been doing it ever since and still do.

[@guygrip2120]

He was ve r y freindly but people were afraid of h i m. But acted as very nice man.

[@placebo4yo]

If God was ever to be met as a human being, I would want it to be Orson Wells. Ta ta.

[@4stringz.]

John Candy does the best Orson impression

[@moduscorp]

"Psychic" readings are really not even as interesting sounding as he is making it out to be. There is the cold reading aspect of course, but It basically comes down to a numbers game where they miss a whole lot and hit on something every now and again. And if anyone knows someone who is considering paying one of these hucksters, you should send them this video immediately.

[@vincentjohnflorio]

Do you think it's not possible, or that it could be possible and nobody's done it yet in any way that's been proven outside of unscientific anecdotes?

[@geinikan1kan]

***** As far as I know no psychic would ever submit to a boring emprical experiment with a control group and everything. They would probably plead the need to have a personal contact with the person being "read," and how spirits and such willl get distracted. And actually it's true, the psychic needs to be able to pick up on psychological cues, facial expressions, and body language in order to "read" someone. But the minute you set up an experimental model to test psychic ability, all the spirits and psychic energy will dissipate into thin air like a rumor.

[@timguardia5155]

Perhaps you haven't heard about just such testing done on a group of psychics by Gary Schwartz at the University of Arizona? Yes, it's been done before, with pretty impressive results. You might also be interested in watching the online episodes of America's psychic challenge. True, sometimes this intuitive information received by actual psychics can be sort of hit or miss. But other times, the odds of their randomly guessing some of the information they receive is off the charts mathematically. Basically impossible. But that sort of thing doesn't get much attention by the skeptics. They focus only on the perceived "misses" and justify their skepticism by that alone.

[@geinikan1kan]

Maybe so, but psychics focus almost completely on their statistically smaller number of hits, and justify their belief on that alone. Otherwise they would go out of buisiness. As for myself, I would be open to reading the results of a well-designed experiment. I am fairly open-minded. Does he have any empirical studies published?

[@chesterbesterfeild]

Tim guardia have you ever heard of the term "peer reviewed" and "repeatable results"?

[@Pirosbor]

1:50 "An a shut-eye in the [what?] of these crooks....." Can anybody tell me what word he said here?

[@Pirosbor]

Certain Sparks Recording Thank you very much - I appreciate it.

[@eXcommunicate1979]

Certain Sparks Recording Basically means "jargon."

[@mattleemattlee123]

The word is argot, and it means the slang or jargon of a particular group.

[@youtubecomment7974]

ebonix

[@Alternatevil]

Where may we find the rest of this fascinating interview?

[@paulgee4336]

I have no scar on my knee. I've had readings from fakes, most of whom use cold reading and other techniques, and I've had real readings. It's not difficult to tell the difference if you know what to look for.

[@genlob]

I love how Frost is completely star struck by the great man. And who wouldn't be?

[@musicom67]

3:36 - Orson was INDEED a psychic.... "I just twittered...I win, you lose"....Twittering in the 70's? ;-)

[@bullsquid42]

I don't have a scar on my knee. Am I weird?

[@taffysaur]

Yes. Freak.

[@dongnippano156]

bullsquid42 Look closer.

[@patrickoriley8382]

bullsquid42 The point was it's all bullshit. And in your case it would be a miss. But they turn it into a non miss.

[@MacJaxonManOfAction]

bullsquid42 "But you have a scar... from when you were young... am I right?" That's the kind of thing they'd then do.

[@bullsquid42]

Or maybe you know somebody who was young once

[@strydom666]

Wow, this guy can surely tell a story! He should make a movie one day.

[@ilinaeternity]

It'd be ironic if he accidentally got psychic while pretending to be psychic.

[@KingSalemno]

You didn't actually watch the video, did you?

[@ilinaeternity]

King Salemno You didn't actually read my comment, did you? It was a tongue in cheek bad joke- don't read so much into it my friend. I appreciate Welles's work and know what he is trying to say.

[@thomaswilburn6263]

ilinaeternity YEAH!!!!

[@ModerateObserver]

"You know I'm a magician?" ...too right we do, Mr Welles

[@stratocaster1986able]

"MAAAHaaaa......the......french"

[@DouggieDinosaur]

I had no interest in watching this video. 15 seconds later, he's pulled me in and I want to watch the whole thing - what a guy!

[@ThunderChunky101]

I once tried it myself a few times. All one needs to do is stop waiting for your turn to speak and just LISTEN to what people say. If you chat with someone in this way for 20-30 minutes you will have them tell you the names of their children, mother, father, spouse, what they do for a living etc. and IMMEDIATELY forget. When you pretend to them that you can read minds you simply repeat back, using careful wording, what was just said to you. They will appear astounded at your 'psychic' ability!

[@kamuelalee]

Extremely interesting person and a filmmaking genius. RIP Mr. Welles!!

[@jimroebuck9341]

Welles was such a fascinating man. His like comes but once in a generation, if at all.

[@waynej2608]

Very true.

[@mspeter97]

Cold reading can be really useful

[@blahblahbleebleeblah]

He actually looks pretty good in this interview. Had he dropped some weight, Welles would have passed for a distinguished old man with the salt and pepper hair.

[@ghostfacedude93]

blahblahbleebleeblah He was that, just overweight.

[@0Imtheslime0]

he could explain to me how paint dries and i would be listening to Orson in awe..

[@livinglegend1187]

I like watching this just because I like Orson's voice and his speaking style.

[@PlamenDrop]

If I could have lunch with any person in history, Orson would be that guy.

[@Armentitron]

Orson Welles and South Park made the exact same point on a topic. Love that

[@dianpink3019]

I have friends that believe in fortune tellers....i explain how they can "read" peoples non-verbial communication. Its nothing supernatural or hocus-pocus. Im a Councillor and I worked with cognitively challenged non-verbail people and I honned my ability to understand non-verbial communication. Eyes say alot with subtle movements

[@phreak761]

Maaaah the French.

[@TheHiddenNarrative]

"What follows is a terrifying tale in the world of probates, beneficiaries... and goblins!"

[@dildonius]

I always found that depiction odd, because that really was never the kind of person he was, and those certainly aren’t the kinds of movies he made. Seems like the writers of The Critic knew who he was some famous movie maker, but nothing beyond that and the shitty commercials he was forced to do in his late life, and just made vague guesses at what he was like and what he did outside of that. The scene you referred to in particular. It’s as if someone who knows nothing about Welles besides “famous fat director of black and white era” was asked to write a bit concerning him, and just referred to some vague old Hollywood tropes and kinda assumed that he made the same kind of stuff as Alfred Hitchcock or something. When the hell did Welles ever do horror stuff and this b-movie tier “Tales....from the CRYPT!” esque schlock?

[@Trigger_000]

*This dude's a great story teller. They should get him on The Tonight Show.*

[@NightRanger77]

A little late for that, buddy

[@Trigger_000]

*Okay, an afternoon show, then.*

[@NightRanger77]

He daid years ago.

[@Trigger_000]

*He couldn't have. I just watched him.*

[@NightRanger77]

John Wayne's still alive too. I just watched True Grit.

[@CvnDqnrU]

>Something bigger than myself

[@Seantendo]

It's no wonder he grew that beard. Look at those cheeks!

[@rsbrehm]

Yeah just by practicing that stuff you can get really good at reading people. Nothing necessarily supernatural about it.

[@elbothy]

The most interesting man who ever lived!

[@Johnconno]

If you find this fascinating you should hear his tales of working as a rent-boy in Galway...Mindboggling. And true of course!

[@BULL.173]

I feel that the word "genius" is one of the most recklessly used in the English language. Especially when used in regards to those who work in the artistic medium of film, television, etc. Are some sublimely talented? Yes. But geniuses? Not so much. I can think of two American directors that I would honestly consider stone cold geniuses. One of them is Orson Welles and the other isn't.

[@malcolmwatt4866]

How does this play in the context of a Church? Pastors and so on prophecizing someone's future? How come the Church prophet can oftentimes be very complex and very accurate? Is there such thing as an accurate ungodly prophecy?

[@dmontes133]

One of the few people that truly deserve the description of genius!

[@opinionday0079]

we are all perhaps far more observant then we think, its not a 6th sense its just that we are much more advanced than we know and through brainwashing (media, iphones etc) and habit we loose that intuition

[@9ner]

The man was a genius. And to be honest, maybe Welles didn’t believe that he was gifted with intuition although he certainly was. He was an artist after all.

[@mirandac8712]

A sublime description of filmmaking.

[@AndrewDrazdikJr]

The second great component of Gnostic thought is magic, properly so called, i.e. the power ex opere operato of weird names, sounds, gestures, and actions, as also the mixture of elements to produce effects totally disproportionate to the cause. Arendzen, John. "Gnosticism." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 30 Jan. 2013. Wikipedia Bayesian probability, interprets the concept of probability as "an abstract concept". Whereas its your truth, we may say!

[@Smithpolly]

@skepticslayer1234 Why? If you are not prepared to show evidence of these tests, you have no right to mention them as something that proves that your beliefs are valid. That said, I think, I'm going to call troll. the grasshopper and Magic Castle comments are just that little bit too absurd to be real.

[@AMcGrath82]

Holy shit... this is decades before cold reading became well known.

[@cwalk9000]

he's talking about teresa caputo. i watch long island medium and im am convinced people are of the same average intelligence as they were in the bible times and before. we have increased technical knowledge but are basically the same minds that came out of the cave.