How Did Peter Popoff Know All Those Details About The Horoscopes?
1. Uri Geller: What happened to Geller on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson? Why? Geller intended to prove his skill to bend spoons with his beliefs and recognize unseen objects, but Geller refuse to try. He said he didn't feel strong enough to show experiment right then and he felt pressured. Before Geller came on stage Randi had Carson's producer to swap out the spoons and metal objects Geller had originally intended to use.
2. Metal bending: What is “ratcheting”? Ratcheting is visible process of changing an object with little force.
3. Faith healers:
A. How did Peter Popoff know all those details about his “flock”? His wife was backstage and she provided him with information about his followers. They had all his followers filling out …show more content…
Horoscopes: In the film, Randi says, “The trickster never works alone.” A. Who is the accomplice? The accomplice was audience that assisted him.
Watch the class-given horoscopes.
B. Describe what was done. The student’s was to give information on when and where they were born. Randi asked the student to grade the information according to the correct by a show of hands. On a scale from 1 to 5; therefore, 5 being the most accurate for the information provided. Randi asked each student to pass their papers over their shoulder to the person behind them. Students on the back row had to bring their paper up to the person on the front row. Randi asked the students to open and read the other person horoscope. The results were all the students had received the same horoscope.
C. What do you think of the student who was upset by the “cynical and one-sided” approach? The student provided a great debate on the detail of people providing false information when it comes to persuading.
D. Why did Randi bring up Santa Claus? Randi brought up Santa Claus because Santa Claus resentment deception people imagination.
5. Palm reading: How does the work by Ray Hyman demonstrate the fallacy of personal validation? The work by Ray Hyman demonstrates how people will take a small piece of information provided to them and claim the information …show more content…
Psychic detectives: Describe the two psychic detectives and their attempt to decipher the history of Ted Bundy? How do the women demonstrate the use of cold reading? Two psychic detectives believed that they had the psychic power to look at a photograph of an person and presume to know what individual have done. Randi presents the women with a photograph of Ted Bundy. One-third of the questions asked were typical. During the interview, Randi provided no answer to the women questions about Ted Bundy. Randi experiment provided that the women had two-third of information completely wrong. Randi experiment provided the two psychic detectives were frauds. Therefore, two psychics get their information from each response during an
2. Metal bending: What is “ratcheting”? Ratcheting is visible process of changing an object with little force.
3. Faith healers:
A. How did Peter Popoff know all those details about his “flock”? His wife was backstage and she provided him with information about his followers. They had all his followers filling out …show more content…
Horoscopes: In the film, Randi says, “The trickster never works alone.” A. Who is the accomplice? The accomplice was audience that assisted him.
Watch the class-given horoscopes.
B. Describe what was done. The student’s was to give information on when and where they were born. Randi asked the student to grade the information according to the correct by a show of hands. On a scale from 1 to 5; therefore, 5 being the most accurate for the information provided. Randi asked each student to pass their papers over their shoulder to the person behind them. Students on the back row had to bring their paper up to the person on the front row. Randi asked the students to open and read the other person horoscope. The results were all the students had received the same horoscope.
C. What do you think of the student who was upset by the “cynical and one-sided” approach? The student provided a great debate on the detail of people providing false information when it comes to persuading.
D. Why did Randi bring up Santa Claus? Randi brought up Santa Claus because Santa Claus resentment deception people imagination.
5. Palm reading: How does the work by Ray Hyman demonstrate the fallacy of personal validation? The work by Ray Hyman demonstrates how people will take a small piece of information provided to them and claim the information …show more content…
Psychic detectives: Describe the two psychic detectives and their attempt to decipher the history of Ted Bundy? How do the women demonstrate the use of cold reading? Two psychic detectives believed that they had the psychic power to look at a photograph of an person and presume to know what individual have done. Randi presents the women with a photograph of Ted Bundy. One-third of the questions asked were typical. During the interview, Randi provided no answer to the women questions about Ted Bundy. Randi experiment provided that the women had two-third of information completely wrong. Randi experiment provided the two psychic detectives were frauds. Therefore, two psychics get their information from each response during an