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Absolutely! I was dragged to a "psychic" evening. PSYCHIC (to me): "do you know someone called John?" ME: Goodbye!
by mister_c on July 27th, 2005
This answer describes why commercial "psychics" are mostly fraudulent, rather than address genuine psychis.
by Hypnotician on August 30th, 2005
Good answer, intelligent way of saying 'real' psychics don't exist.
by Chris Redmond on October 27th, 2005
Actually you pay them $3.99 a minute for them to tell you what you already subconsciously know but don't consciously know. Skeptics like to use the term "cold reader" but don't like it when it is pointed out that people who aren't as good at "cold reading" as psychics (if "cold reading is what psychics really do") routinely get almost the same rate per minute: psychologists. Good cold readers are excellent psychologists, and that is part of what you are paying for: someone else looking into your own head and pulling out the bits you can't or won't see yourself.
by eternal0void on January 12th, 2007
Incidentally, I too have a friend who is a telephone psychic who has a reasonably good accuracy rate (better than guessing) on things you can't get out of voices and tones (such as tattoos and pets). She says that more than 90% of the time what a man wants from a psychic is an answer to a relationship question (usually either "does she have someone else?" or "when is she going to put out?"), and in her experience 100% of her job or financial calls come from women (women are split 50/50 on relationship/job questions). Then again, your friend is a man, so maybe men call male psychics for finances and women call male psychics for relationships; while female psychics get asked relationship questions by men and financial questions by women.
by eternal0void on January 12th, 2007
The difficulty with "real" in conjunction with "psychics" is that we don't completely understand the human brain. Several studies have found that our conscious minds come up with an explanation for our actions some milliseconds after our subconscious minds have caused the actions. Anyone who says that s/he feels that s/he is making educated guesses instead of receiving psychic messages is at that instant making an educated guess about the process, because their conscious mind didn't come up with the thought process that led to the assumption that educated guesses are the process, not "psychic messages".
by eternal0void on January 26th, 2009