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Omg, this just gives us even more backing! Divination is a serious practice everypony!
The approach Joey took is actually very scientific. He did the experiment multiple times where the control was the questions, and the only independent variables were the reader and the deck used (and tarot decks are often fairly similar anyways)
Einstein once said, "insanity is getting the same results multiple times and putting them aside as nonsense" (I think I might've messed up that quote but that was the gist of what he said)
Better yet, the experiment isn't biased in any way, since Joey has little to no experience with the spirit world
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I actually agree with some of this. Sure, you can fool people by being vague, but they weren't really being all that vague. However, there were points where I was yelling at some of them because this guy is a random guy off the street, and they're using terminology your average Joe can't understand. Plus, what about the pool? How did she know about that? Or the move at all? People aren't always moving. Also, you do know that there are 78 cards in a normal Tarot deck. Each card symbolizes very different concepts. What they were doing were all the Celtic Cross layout. Basically, they statistically would've gotten at least half of the information incorrect, but they all knew about him and Joey, that they were moving, one guessed there was a pool, etc. And maybe you don't know how Tarot works. They drew a bunch of random cards and interpreted them after askinga question. They weren't making up anything on the spot. I'm making a deck, so once I finish that, I'd be happy to give a demonstration. There's no way just any layout would fit everyone's life. It's statistically improbable
Ex. Lets say I do a three card reading that consist of: Upside down DEVIL, Upside down FOOL, and THE LOVERS. This would imply that you are either in, just got out of, or are about to go into an abusive relationship out of blissful foolishness, or possibly get stuck in a dead end job without having the guts to get out of it. Depends on the person.
Tell me how something so specific could apply to just anyone? And honey, that's only a three-card reading. They did a Celtic Cross Spread, which is comprised of 11 cards, and the meaning of each changes relative to the position it's in on the spread.
Statistically impossible to have them work for anyone
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To be clear, psychic phenomena have never been displayed in tests that meet the expectations of the scientific method and then been successfully repeated independently*. Therefore an entirely reasonable conclusion to make at this time is that such phenomena do not exist.
*in contrast, I have seen experiments that demonstrate electrons displaying properties of both waves and particles first hand. Just because a phenomena is complex or contravenes common sense (as quantum physics does) doesn't mean that it can't be tested - or that scientists won't believe it if the evidence points that way. Indeed my previous post suggested a basic methodology that could test for certain phenomena^.
^although it should be noted that I am a statistician rather than a scientist, so more work would need to be done to create a proper experiment out of the statistical methodology I proposed.
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Exactly! Human knowledge accounts for less than 4% of the Universe, and that's just a guess based upon how big we think the universe is. But I'm telling you, my divination practices have never failed to be correct. The times they are incorrect, I can usually deduce something else. But it's pretty reliable. I couldn't explain how it works, but I can tell you all I'm doing is reading signs and going with my gut. Or Sometimes when scrying, I get this auditory feedback loop happening with every thought that comes across my head after I get myself into the right sort of trance. Can't explain that at all. Not really sure to be honest, but I can guarantee that it does Indeed work