I know it doesn't out right prove it. I don't think it's confirmation bias though because I wasn't hoping he was capable of what I had heard he could do. In fact I sat down with this guy with the agenda of knocking him. To me, the scene of being terrified by a cartoon pirate is to specific to relate to every individual like some odd form of the Barnum effect.
No, that's true, I think confirmation bias isnt exactly what I was thinking, but I cant remember the right term. I mean that the human brain has a tendency to see patterns, so when someone says something like "clown" and then you remember a clown sometime in your life, you think of that but dont account for the fact that you've seen literally millions (or billions) of things in your life. If he'd said "cartoon rabbit" then you would remember a rabbit that you've seen. It's not like he said "you saw a pirate on your 5th birthday party and he made you cry". That would be a specific claim.
It's basically like prophecies, or the Bible Code. Something happens and then people go searching through these things for matches. Then they think a prediction was made because they find one. Except I never hear of a prediction being made ahead of time by a prophecy or the Bible Code. Only after the fact.
But, anyway, I'm just saying... if you get another chance to give him a test, do the number thing.
Also, simply, anyone who stepped up and proves to have psychic powers would instantly become a worldwide celebrity, rich, and would overturn physics. His name would go down in the history books. But, this hasnt happened, ever. Certainly not in the hundreds of years that we've had modern science. Why not???
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