Comments on: Psychic

By: Tim H.

Tim H. — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:36:48 +0000

Magicians use tricks like this. They’ll impose conditions like “odd digits, but not the same two digits,” constraining choice more than it casually seems they are, then guess “37.” High enough success rate to do the trick, and probably they have a joke or distraction prepared for failure. When magicians do this with random pedestrians on TV, the ‘trick’ is editing out the failures.

By: TH

TH — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:08:31 +0000

>Is it worth it for 1% of the people to think you are a psychic and the other 99% think you are a dope?

The comic explicitly says it is. TOTALLY worth it.

By: Draylla

Draylla — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:35:25 +0000

If you have to do it, you might as well do it right.

By: Eowedrivudd

Eowedrivudd — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:41:05 +0000

If you have to do it, you might as well do it right.

By: M

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:56:50 +0000

Also a common scam for stock market predictions.

By: Bracken

Bracken — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:56:52 +0000

This is the basis of a classic scam. Fora few weeks in a row, you put predicted outcomes of sporting events on a slip of paper on someone’s windshield or mailbox, or whatever. You diversify as much as possible and do the same thing to a few hundred independent people and keep track of which ones turn out to be right. Eventually, you’ll hit enough in a row to convince one person that you know something, and that they should pay you for your next prediction.