The One: Australia's Most Gifted Psychic Episode 2 pt 1 of 3

[winterhell2002]

they should invite James Randi as the critic

[dylans8]

no evidence no proof so fake

[floorkillacris]

this is not proving psychics it is jst findin the person who is the best at cold reading and has heaps of luck.. If u wanna prove it exists or not do a double blind experiment. every single time it has shown psychics are as good as chance. meaning they have no power....

[bobbin321]

I love this show! Thank you so much for the upload.

[HUGOVANTA]

5:39....fail

[jcchurch]

I want to see a psychic get up an say, "Tony Francis, you lost your watch. You missed your 10 AM appointment for the doctor and your wife plans on leaving you next week. Buy a dozen roses and take her favorite restaurant (Charlie's) and then the hotel where you first made love (the room is #454)."

[EchosFromaBlankMind]

The guys has to ask the woman "Is your mum in the spirit world?" I thought he was a fucking psychic? Then he goes off with "She's got the lighter colored hair?" She's an older woman, what else would she have. He never mentioned that the photo was in the locket.

Fail Fail Fail!!!

[veryboredpug]

i generally believe in psychic abilities but the people who go on these types of shows are just really good guessers/body language readers...

[veryboredpug]

that judge is really a crappy skeptic -cough-

[ServantOfNone]

omg thats amazing i gonna get a psychic reading tommoro

[Buzzkillskeptic]

What she calls "blind reading" also goes by the name "cold reading". Why talking so fast? So the hits stick and there's no time to process the misses. Marvallous how general these statements are. If these people are psychics, I suggest James Randi's million dollar challenge. Don't need a million? What about a charity?

[Nocturnalux]

I was about to say the exact same thing. My only question is, do they know that they are liars or are they deluded themselves?

[Irwansanjoyo]

i do believe on psychic ability

[pete975]

the psychic pretending that he didn't realise it was a locket - and you don't have to be psychic to guess it contain a photo of someone close to the subject.

[faarsight]

Seeing as how death of cancer is the most common death in the western world and she was already assuming that the mother had had children, the thing with mother or "mother figure" diseast in cancer was hardly surprising (again for just one of them)

One thing that strenghtens the hypothesis that she was good at spooting people who had had their keys taken as part of the experiment is that the other person looked at the key as if though it might have been hers, making it seem as if though she had

[faarsight]

However, notice that the fact that one out of two people choosen knew someone with a name starting with T was hardly surprising. Neither was it surprising that one of them were involved with healt issues in some way or with ice cream. The children thing was vague, two children and a mischariage would have counted the same as three children and a mischariage. She also threw alot of info around and some was true for one person and some for the other, this increases chances.

[faarsight]

Third one is good seeing as how she actually pin pointed two people, one of which was the correct one. A few things to note, though. It is likely that she, socially adapt as she must be to pull these kind of shows off, was able to pin point people who locked as if though they thought that she had picked their keys. Peoples faces can be pretty revealing at times. She was obviously as good at cold reading as she claimed.

[PrintScrn12]

She's shotgunning. With enough people a description will stick to someone. The description was fairly general too

Death by cancer is very common. Someone with health issues or involved with "healing" from such an audience is common too

Knowing someone with a name starting with T is common. The guess that it's a T***y was a maybe protecting her if she was wrong, hence isn't a hit.

3 babies 1 miscarriage guess was called a hit when in reality it was 2 babies 1 miscarriage

[faarsight]

The second one was obviously BS, she screwed up by being too specific. still the guess' were all based on the shape of the key ring.

That was the classic response when a cold reading fails.

[timtam20292]

@faarsight the second one is now a regular on PsychicTv Australia, so shut the fuck up.

[faarsight]

Notice that the audience is not skeptical but very sympathetic

[faarsight]

Notice how happy he gets when he gets the only semi specific claim he made correct (woman, lightish hair p = approx 25%) if he was sure he would not

classic cold reading

[faarsight]

First reading: Notice that every prediction is extreamly probable. Woman p = approx 1/2 (though we don't get to know if the gender of the audience is equally distributed) this could also have been infered from the look of the key

One half of the audience p= 1/2 and in fact this turns out not to be quite true (middle)

Woman who's mom has died, considering the relatively high age of the audience p = approx. 75%

P mum dead, have a picture = 99% or near

P woman and 'lightish hair' = approx. 25%

[PrintScrn12]

Guessing an older lady, particularly one who has passed. is more likely given the item was an old fashioned locket. It's a common feminine heirloom.

Stepping from that it is likely the person is run down, tired or hitting a brick wall as this is a common assessment of someone who seeks help in relation to a paternal loss.

Having a picture is obviously true particularly given the item is a locket. That's like guessing a picture frame has a photo.

[mymp40]

i luv this show

[321snooze]

thx 4 uploading this i missed it!