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Entry: The Art of Cold Reading - A14644262
Author: Serephina..in attack of the killer wheelchair - U191719

I've just read the Writing Workshop convo. It looks like this one was in cold storage for quite a while.

Good article!

I'm sure there's a guy (D. Brown?) who's honest and up-front about the fact that he's actually cold reading. He does a 'messages from the spirits' act on stage, but will openly say in interviews that it is just an act, and explain how it works.

I saw him in a YouTube video once, being interviewed, I think, by R. Dawkins.

Might be an interesting area for further research, that's all.

TRiG.

Do you mean Derren Brown? He's very very good at it.


Yes this was in storage for ages with a load of other entries I had forgotton all about!

I think that was the name, yes.

Crivvens! This has been kicking around for a while, Seraph

I like it and I'll give it foive

A few typos;

Under How Cold Reading Works

could apply to anyone for instance, ---> semi colon after anyone(?)

generalisms ---> is that even a word? generalisations may sound better (to my ears anyway)

Cold reading is without doubt very versatile, ---> personally I would put a comma after 'is' and another after 'doubt'

realiing it. ---> realising

Doris Stokes, among others was ---> comma after 'others'

Under Cold reading in History

american sptitualist mvement ---> American Spiritualist Movement


Under Other uses of Cold Reading

Cold reading techniques can be, and are used in ---> comma after 'are'

For instance they ---> comma after 'instance'



Doris Stokes has been known to me for many a year as a glass of wine - well she was a 'large white medium'

Good to see you back in PR

I knew there was something else...

Derren Brown is Ch4 tonight 14/03 at 9pm.

I really must learn how to type ..chers mags!

Previous review thread: F5159979?thread=3521422
Serephina if you check posting 14 you'll find Bel posted a whole load of corrections which you haven't attended to, and I'm reluctant to review this until you have, because it's a waste of time, when I would just point out the same things.

GB

Unlike Pterry's Mrs Cake, who's a medium verging on small.

TRiG.

'The Fox sisters, the founders of the american sptitualist mvement in the 1840's were proven hoaxters'.

Several+typos+in+here.

Also,+just+before+posting,+I+noticed++(>gauge)

Hi there Serephina - nice to see you back in PR. James Randi currently has one million dollars (I think - but not sure about the amount) in an account for the first person who can prove the existance of the spirit world - so far no takers.

I'm also pretty sure that American medium John Edwards - who is a tv medium and can be very specific - has had tests done at one of the big American Unis which showed an are of his brain became more active when he was doing a reading - not sure of the actual findings - if any - of the research though.

Any chance of an update, Serephina?

updated

This Article is "not for review"do you want us to start reviewing again?

sorry i thought id changed that

Not reviewing, just reading...

Very good article