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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1784380" data-attributes="member: 3649">Even a broken clock is right twice a day. People tend to remember the times something worked and forget all the (many more numerous) times that things went wrong or had no result. Media tends to report successes and/or unusual events; a psychic 'proven' to be right in some regard will get reported on while the dozens of unprofitable or even counterproductive efforts are ignored unless something spetacularly wrong happens (like when a psychic named an innocent man as the Boston Strangler). Even 'proven' instances of psychic aid may be over-reported, misquoted, or simply manufactured. The amount of aid a psychic gives often grows in the telling. Many times suppossed 'revelations' prove out to be something a person with a sharp ear and eye could do, or that the psychic has a source of information readily available to others. The ones that provide some degree of information that seems on the surface to be something no-one could logically know are engaging in a practice called 'retrofitting' (a form of 'cold reading'; this is the same thing John Edwards on Crossing Over does) where purposefully vague references are later 'fitted' to discovered information by either the psychic or those who want to believe in him. Thankfully, at least most of those who offer aid to the police (the police virtually never seek a psychics aid; either the aid is offered, or the family or friends pay to have a psychic brought in on their own time and money) are people who seem to genuinely want to help and think they have a means to do so.</blockquote>

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