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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce11/09/2012 8:12:19 pm PST

re: #70 JamesWI

Read the second question here and tell me this doesn’t sound like Paula Broadwell’s husband (probably isn’t, but it is eerie)

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It’s highly ambiguous. Almost any “government executive” could be projected into that empty space. Seems very similar to the way cold reading works.

I can’t remember the name of it to save my life, but there was a study conducted once upon a time that involved people being asked to rate how accurately they thought a few paragraphs described their personalities. Almost everyone said it was an exact or nearly-exact match. In reality, the descriptions were very generalized statements that could apply to almost everyone, but were worded in such a way as to give the illusion of being specific.