> The latest episode had him write a personality profile on three lots
> of six people in their early twenties, each (for effect) in three
> diufferent countries. He asked them to write down their birth dates
> and then returned and hour later (also for effect) and presented each
> with theirs.
>
> The majority said is was accurate between 80 to 99 %% , with one
> claiming 40.
>
> He then asked them to swap, and they discovered it was the same
> report.
>
> His explaination was that this was a simple example of cold reading,
> and informed the groups that this proved how baseless all such
> readings are.
>
> He used cold reading to demonstrate there was no such reality as 'hot'
> reading. Of course, many people are sucked in, otherwise Mercedes Benz
> and BMW would not exist. Experience is the "only" teacher
>
> Yet another sophist emerges.