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Wanted to know if there is any reference or is someone has ever done a statistic about "think of a card". Like we know ace of spades for men and queen of hearts for girls, but what about other odds ? i ve seen in my performances that 7 is coming a lot "7 of clubs or hearts"
so what about you ?

There was a thread about this which started just before Christmas - a bit of searching ought to find the results.

i dont know of any particular set of statistics, but there are a few common regluarities, for example:

when displaying a packet of cards to look at, or a particular section of a fan:

people tend to (still a gamble) go for
- any odd in the bunch i.e. a black amongst red
- a court card amongst pips

when thinking of a card from mind, there are the obvious ones like ace of spades etc and the gender preferences like you said.

there are a lot of ideas about influencing this decision through gesture and patter though, i.e.
- telling them to imagine the card brightly in their mind - influences red
- to imagine the pips on the card and matking them in the air with hand - to a specific value

there are some interesting ideas