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DominicRougier wrote:"How does knowing what people generally say, a bit, mostly, have to with mind reading?"
resindrummer wrote:Hiya. im writing an essay on the possibility of artificial consciousness and basically i wanted to use the fact that when you ask someone to pick a number between 1 - 10 most people say 7 (though i heard it was 3 or 7). anyways, i was wonderin if the book had a reference for who conducted the research and found this out? or what this effect is called? and whether you could send me it. would be greatly appreciated
cheers
resindrummer wrote:Hiya. im writing an essay on the possibility of artificial consciousness and basically i wanted to use the fact that when you ask someone to pick a number between 1 - 10 most people say 7 (though i heard it was 3 or 7). anyways, i was wonderin if the book had a reference for who conducted the research and found this out? or what this effect is called? and whether you could send me it. would be greatly appreciated
cheers
Incidentally, I tried this at work recently and the first five people I asked all answered "seven".
EDIT: Actually, it was four people, but still impressive I think.
??? wrote:I loved this book, to me it has been one of the mist useful resources on my shelf. It is very handy when someone asks you to 'do a trick' when finding out you're a magician. I find Ring of Truth and a couple of the subtleties is a nice little impromptu demonstration of what I do when I'm not arsed to do a big effect.
Teller's foreword is a highlight of the book! I recently used a variation of his disclaimer on a TV show, hopefully it'll survive the edit!!! I'm currently saving for Teller's books just on the strength of this foreword as it was so damn thought provoking!!!
Another little snippet that you'd simply glance over without absorbing it is the one where you create a dual reality and to the audience appear to know a spectators name without talking to them and to the spectator it appears nothing happened!!!
All in all an awesome book, and one of the best purchases I ever made! Worth it just for Tellers foreword.
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