Saturday, August 23, 2008

Cool cold reading video

I've seen several videos on cold reading in the past. While basic, this one is quick, dirty, fun and gets the point across in a cute British accent and creative directing.

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-be-psychic-cold-reading-techniques

Highly recommended. This is how instructional videos should look like.

Update:
A reader suggested the above video was minimal, barely a glance into the subject. I agree, but like it.

More instructional videos (more like Power Point presentations recorded into videos) on cold reading can be found on YouTube, in four parts:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=labhmXW5VUU
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-KWkZ1UqJI
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpIMg5YmUK8
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AL91hPGlto

The most famous text on cold reading is by Ray Hyman, Cold Reading: How to Convince Strangers That You Know All About Them. From “The Outer Edge, Classic Investigations of the Paranormal”:

http://ruahmidbar.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/strangers.doc

And here are Ray Hyman's 13 points in Guide to "Cold Reading":
http://www.skeptics.com.au/articles/coldread.htm

As a final example, check out this excerpt from the film Young Sherlock Holmes, in which an adolescent Watson is given a quick lesson in “simple deduction”.

Other resources are readily available on Google.

Pinky.

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