I would never fall for nonsense, but that's because I'm a Leo and Leo's tend to be skeptical

@robertburbulea8503

4 жыл бұрын

That s a good one

@michaelmccarty1327

4 жыл бұрын

The TV show Monk did a gag like that. Someone was murdering people with voodoo dolls, or so it seemed. They asked Randy if he was worried about it at all. He shook his head. "I'm a Pisces. We're not superstitious."

@n1n353

4 жыл бұрын

GG

@Starliet

4 жыл бұрын

*Hey, am a Leo too but I don't believe in Astrology...but however I love calling myself a Leo.... 😂😂*

@shichibukaitetsuo5938

4 жыл бұрын

Dammit... lol

Who else read it as astronomy and physics?

@Mo1683

5 жыл бұрын

How else are we s’posed to read it?

@bikal2012

5 жыл бұрын

That's how I fell here

@matthewhightower7267

5 жыл бұрын

How did you know 😦

@rileyb12344456667

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@curseofsasuke

5 жыл бұрын

I believe in physics. Now I’m ashamed.

The Barnum effect also applies to a plethora of videos on KZread with titles such as “10 Signs you’re a genius!” or “Signs you have a rare INJP personality” or “Signs you are creative” etc and the masses fall for it as smooth as butter melts at room temperature.

@dom-dg2qy

4 жыл бұрын

Brainybutnotgeeky. That’s something an INTJ would say actually

@a_personperson9785

4 жыл бұрын

Lol i came from that kind of video And i remembered the barnum effect

@trinitytorres379

4 жыл бұрын

Brainybutnotgeeky. Myers-Briggs personality types are more personal though. The thing that makes MBTI gimmicky is that it’s mostly restating things you already know about yourself. They are separate from things like astrology though in terms of accuracy. It’s all based on how you function as a person

@claude2571

4 жыл бұрын

psych2go being a prime example. actually trash YT channel because they promote self diagnosis and diagnosis of other people using false methods. extremely harmful

@claude2571

4 жыл бұрын

@@trinitytorres379 Actually, Meyers Briggs was not created by psychologists and has no scientific backing. It was proven false by actual experts in the field countless times

"You like to meet interesting people and you can be a lot of fun but you really appreciate your alone time and you don't always feel like being surrounded by people." That kind of BS

@israelwolstein9351

4 жыл бұрын

@Thelondonbadger This kinda sounds like good advice tho

@ferise1

4 жыл бұрын

Israel Wolstein that’s actually Libra.

@wwerules000

4 жыл бұрын

@Thelondonbadger your taking the mic a bit, people who belive in star signs and fate, normally like a idea of what's coming, I used to read star signs but went of them because I never connected much to it

@ferise1

4 жыл бұрын

Studies Only read these, perfect examples of how astrology fits people and their body shapes. If you don’t look at all these, and don’t consider astrology, you’re a fool. m.imgur.com/a/kHm7qu5

@lezel4swarts

3 жыл бұрын

As an introvert. this is true

I think everyone has fallen victim to the Barnum effect.

@bewmdogg

5 жыл бұрын

no you can recognize it but not fall for it though. eg. I don't obviously believe in astrology but I've read them before and I can relate somewhat to a vague statement it says about my sign. But I know it's horseshit. I know I could read any sign to anyone and they would say "yeah that's me"

@theonetypingthis7186

5 жыл бұрын

Anyone who's not very young mentally will recognise the vague nature of the statements, the rest will fall victim like you said

@Cezkarma

5 жыл бұрын

Lol these 2 didn't get the joke

@ferise1

4 жыл бұрын

Sidney Hale not me

@Who2Rawww

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cezkarma what joke

"You are breathing" Astrology people:*surprised pikachu face*

@magicdolphin3090

3 жыл бұрын

@@sharolerato8611 did they ask tho

Reminds me of a TV advert, many years ago, where a young lady says to a young man "From what I've seen of you at this party, I'd say you are a Sagittarius.""I am. That's amazing. How did you work that out?" "Well it is your birthday party."

@astroseer

3 жыл бұрын

PLEASE! NO ONE IS MADE UP OF ONE SIGN. A PERSON IS USUALLY MADE OF SEVERAL SIGNS. DID YOU KNOW THAT A SIGN IS SIMPLY A SPECIFIC ATTITUDE TOWARD THINGS IN LIFE. HOW MANY KINDS OF ATTITUDES DO YOU HAVE???

@partiallyfrozen3425

Жыл бұрын

@@astroseer You believe in that starsign bullshit? How the hell does a flaming ball of hydrogen and helium 500 lightyears away affect earth? How does the gravitational alignment of planets affect personality?

@potatoheadpokemario1931

Жыл бұрын

​@@partiallyfrozen3425 it's simple, most star readings are off because over 3000 years the stars lagged behind a bit so most people are actually tge starsign behind what they thought they were

@partiallyfrozen3425

Жыл бұрын

@@potatoheadpokemario1931 What if a star went super nova 500 years ago, but we only saw it today, wouldn't that mean that some starsigns are physically impossible because the star literally does not exist anymore? People who claim to be a starsign of a supernova star could not be, because the star had already gone supernova over 500 years ago and the light only just reached earth. Is the 'starsign energy' bound by the speed of light?

@potatoheadpokemario1931

Жыл бұрын

@@partiallyfrozen3425 it's based on when the light gets to earth, so events that happened 500 years ago don't effect us unless it's on a star less than 500 lightyears away

Just from watching this video I can tell that you are a highly intelligent person that is sometimes too critical of yourself. You will also become romantically rich or whatever in the next few weeks. Please donate €5 to hear more.

@rll1236

6 жыл бұрын

donation link pls

@missbell5876

5 жыл бұрын

- Cogito - I am picking up that you are a genuine and honest person, but you are shy and sometimes lack of self confidence. Sarcasm could be your way of masking social anxiety. But understand that the most important thing is to be yourself and let people love you for you... Aha. Nope, that's not psychic, that's just basic human nature 😂😂😂

@hotepanthony3910

5 жыл бұрын

@symmeta7168

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@kaylingraceb

5 жыл бұрын

this is a legendary comment and should never be removed.

I am a rational person, so I don't believe the fortunes in fortune cookies. However, I really like the cookies. They remind me of vanilla wafers. I always read the fortunes, even though I discredit their validity. This, I think, is consistent with my personality as an Aquarius. Also, I'm engaged to my umbrella. Is that normal?

@hyronvalkinson1749

4 жыл бұрын

As an Aquarius, I too like those wafers and have fun reading their fortunes. I also have an interpersonal relationship, but with my phone instead of my umbrella. Is that weird? Maybe we're connected after all! (because too many people will take this the wrong way, this is definitely a joke)

@ninja8flash742

4 жыл бұрын

Kek

@Chris.D.

4 жыл бұрын

Yes guys. It's perfectly normal for you! You are actually the weirdos of the zodiac! Congratulations!

@Sbhh1999

4 жыл бұрын

David Henderson you aren’t rational. You have chosen to cement your right brain. And use the left only.

@RadityaNugraheni2405

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

You might confuse vague statements that can be true for most people as accurate descriptions of yourself, but with some mental effort you can learn to recognise them and avoid making rash decisions based on them. Trust your loyal friends to point out to you the true qualities you posses, and avoid falling prey to deceptive scams. Your lucky number this week is 17.

@hannahpocock4152

5 жыл бұрын

And your horoscope states that you're probably reading this right now with your eyes

@paritoshruia5801

4 жыл бұрын

@@hannahpocock4152 XD

@Sbhh1999

4 жыл бұрын

Uri Tibon ever had a proper reading? I mean like actual skeptics who used to say such shit and had their mind blown AFTER a proper reading which is NOTHING General? Doubt it.

@colincheese7550

4 жыл бұрын

Touche

@SreyRc

3 жыл бұрын

@@hannahpocock4152 OOhh! Thanks for letting me know. Had no idea.

It's why in the past, it was called "sooth saying" Because they will most often tell you what you want to hear not advice you actually need!

@mirkopolyak3592

3 жыл бұрын

TRULYMORTAL Clever, but untrue. The English term “soothsayer” comes from an Old English term “soosagu” which means “speaking the truth”. Literally, it can be translated as truth sayer.

I had a live reading with a psychic and she said that I have problems and I’m stuck on the girl I was in my last relationship with. I was confused because I’ve never been in a relationship at the time of doing the reading so I was wondering who she was talking about. She then told me I was very depressed, I was at one of the happier moments in my life at the time. She said I have problems sleeping and that there is something that stand over me “a darkness” while a sleep. I sleep like a baby. I think the darkness she was referring too is the room. Since the lights are off. So I can… you know sleep. Everything was so general, I literally was so upset at myself for wasting my money.

@MishaLUL

2 жыл бұрын

It's called cold reading and it's the psychic grifters number one go to

"You need food to stay alive" "You might feel sleepy, If you don't sleep any for 24 hours"

@alicemeliksetian7981

2 жыл бұрын

yes, those occult workers like tarot readers give advice but before that they'll actually give you a reading if they're legit and your money's worth goes to use.

@hermionescranny

2 жыл бұрын

“Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes”

I fell prey to it. When I was 22 I went to a fortune teller. They said I had trouble sleeping and I would live until I was 81 years old. And I would be married late 20’s and start a family in early 30’s. I didn’t get married until 39. Still have no kids. And I never had trouble sleeping I just tried to believe it.

@GGora

4 жыл бұрын

wow! Did you just equate some fortune teller to astrology?? Ever had a proper birth chart reading???!!!!

@strangethings23

4 жыл бұрын

@@GGora did you just equate some astrology to fortune telling? Have you ever had a proper tarot reading?

@GGora

4 жыл бұрын

@@strangethings23 I have had all of them yes. And they are VERY different ways we use in order to decipher the codes within the matrix. I am going to present all of these ways and also HOW to hack these codes, YUP. YOU heard that.

@strangethings23

3 жыл бұрын

@@GGora they're all equally dumb

@astroseer

3 жыл бұрын

Fortunetelling is not what a real astrologer does. They explain you to yourself and make suggestions on how to live your life. This will make total sense to you

Stars,moon,sun just vibing and performing their universal purpose Astrologers: this must mean something about your birth,career,personality and love life.

It's weird how many people are gullible

@trequor

5 жыл бұрын

@Mr. 8-Bit Doggo I think it's more about lazy thinking. People rarely bother to look into anything

@jakari3327

4 жыл бұрын

The irony is people fall for things, because in reality truth is in all things at some level, so we find these truths, the problem arrives when we ignore the lies in all of things too, that's called self deception, which leads to bad choices, balance is key, knowl3dge is power, and wisdom is how to use it in your unique life😊

@ferise1

4 жыл бұрын

bewmdogg weirder still is how many people don’t even look into astrology.

@perke7456

4 жыл бұрын

They just believe what they like even if it has no evidence.

@ferise1

4 жыл бұрын

PERKE people match their signs, so that’s evidence, so it’s not a belief.

When a girl tells you to check your horoscope before dating.

@michaelmccarty1327

4 жыл бұрын

That's when you decide whether she's hot enough to get into the horoscope business. Writer her something along the lines of, "You will meat a very interesting person, and love is just around the corner. By the way, marry ZybeZ."

@DearHRS

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmccarty1327 xd

@kuhl5143

3 жыл бұрын

that’s a clear sign you should just leave her

@djjones2563

3 жыл бұрын

That's when you run.

@ss-cp2uy

3 жыл бұрын

i’d just leave 💀💀

The ad for this video was "Psychic Answers", a website for psychic consulting. I swear KZread is taking the piss out of your videos

@DearHRS

4 жыл бұрын

nah, it is just how algorithm tries to fetch ad based on topic of video it decided after running its code there are probably not as many business advertising how to cope against Barnum effect, so it attempted to fetch something else close to this topic discussed in video

I once got a fortune-cookie that said that my passenger-side rear tire was about 15 PSI low. It was oddly specific.

@alicemeliksetian7981

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, a synchronicity ig? But i believe fortune cookies are absolute bull crap.

@sitarabellum

5 ай бұрын

​@@alicemeliksetian7981 You guys try your best to falsify spiritual stuffs but guess what? They are real, very real.

@zionmoses1839

Ай бұрын

😅😅😅

Someone who believed in Astrology once tried to convince me and told me something about myself based on my sign. I felt very vindicated when I was able to reply, "Absolutely not. If I was the kind of person who sets his mind to something and gets it done, would I still be working at Subway?"

@astroseer

3 жыл бұрын

They failed you because they were trying to explain who you are by referring to one sign, There are 10 heavenly bodies moving through the heavens all the time. when you were born these planets were found in different signs of the zodiac.Therefore these different signs explain all your various attitudes of your nature. this can be easily proven by a competent astrologer.

@stamblock

2 жыл бұрын

@@astroseer but its false, we pay attention to one true sign and we ignore 100 false signs. Thats why people are obsessed with Astrology. They always look at the results THEY themselves want to pay attention to, not the results which end up in painful failure. Reality is a point of view for every human, and thats where stupid horoscopes are based on.

@BANANASAUCEYUM

9 ай бұрын

@@astroseerYou believe in fairy tales, idiot. Do you believe in the tooth fairy too?

I came here because I am a fanatic of astrology and everything resonates but after my classmate got drunk with me and mentioned this, none of those readings resonates anymore. Ahhh I hate intelligent people. That one made me look dumb 😂

lol tht BuzzFeed reference though. Cool video! I've always doubted the "results" as they were all so positive and not me.

watched that psychic ad at the beginning trying not to laugh

@sen7826

4 жыл бұрын

Something about an app? 😂

@armyshope

3 жыл бұрын

But predicting the future is a gift

I wish my family and friends who believe in astrology and other pseudoscience crap would watch this. Great video.

@MishaLUL

2 жыл бұрын

Factual information goes in one ear and out the other in people that believe in pseudosciences

@timeWaster76

2 жыл бұрын

I feel your pain

I think Steven Fry explained it best while he and Dr. House were at a Mentalist show. The guy said that he "picked up on someone with a strong sense of humor." and Hugh just looks up and asks everyone who felt they didn't have a good sense of humor to raise their hand. Half the time it's generic stuff that everyone wants to believe about themselves, and relies on the blindspot people have on asking themselves whether or not the information could also pertain to someone else. A good exercise is to take a horoscope reading and read every single one. You'll notice that one says "You're compassionate, smart, and daring" while another says "You're caring, intelligent, and brave."

I think whether true or not people tend to think " i can be like that" rather than " i am"

@armyshope

3 жыл бұрын

I like myself

I saw a meme once that said: “I text bitches at 3:33 or 11:11 so they can think the universe is sending me” 😂

Wow this is so interesting! I think I've just found a new great KZread channel to binge!

Even more people believe that governments and politicians have their best interest at heart.

I fell for them and I regret a lot now. Mediums and fortune tellers love preying on people going through grief. I was in grad school and a professor tried telling me about the effect. I should’ve listened … people grieving want a way to speak to their parents again or a lost loved one. I got to the point of going to mediums so much that I thought they were friends , but in reality they told me things to scare me and get more money. I’m tempted to go back to school to just study this effect more , but I’ll do some research at least on my own.

@maryamdiao1509

Жыл бұрын

Yup same here my mom kinda warned me I just have to pick myself back up and make my own life

@angelicajoytrygar8593

Жыл бұрын

yes that’s the way to do it .

What is unique about our personality isn’t isolated traits or characteristics but a combination of those. The test certainly misses that. Most would claim to be honest, sensitive, compassionate, because most often they’re! You’ll see more helpful strangers in your life than violent criminals

@92brunod

3 жыл бұрын

I do see more selfish pricks than helpful strangers though.

@Skeppsvrak

2 жыл бұрын

@@92brunod That's because negative traits/actions tend to leave a much bigger impression than positive ones. For example if you stay at a hotel and 97 % of your experience there is satisfying while the remaining 3 % are not meeting your expectations, guess which part you will mention first if asked to give your stay a review. Most people will focus on the 3 % that were bad. Or let's say you ask a stranger for directions. If the stranger politely answers you thank them and move on with your life, but if they for some reason says "fuck you, find the way there yourself" you will remember that person far longer compared to the person who helped you.

@92brunod

2 жыл бұрын

@@Skeppsvrak Nope. There just are more selfish pricks than helpful strangers. You can see it in their behaviour in general. And that's in a context were being a shitty person is frowned upon. Most people would be absolute assholes if they could. I actually remember MUCH MUCH more people who were nice and helpful, than assholes. They just aren't as many. Same with the hotel, if it's 97% satisfying I'll end up loving it and will completely forget the 3% that wasn't good. Even if I complain about the bad I'd get a good impression.

@Skeppsvrak

2 жыл бұрын

@@92brunod I think you're looking at it the wrong way. To circle back to the example about asking a stranger for directions, a huge majority of people would help you if they could and if not they'd at least answer politely that they don't know how to get there. I'm fairly certain you would have to ask plenty of random strangers before you find someone that would respond with something rude (unless you do it in a really shitty neighbourhood where everyone are miserable and only care for themselves). My point is that most people are nice if you give them a chance.

Some basically people want to believe in something more and they'll fall for anything.

very nice explanation, tnx

Awesome channel👌

Got an advertisement for a "psychic advisor" app before this. 🤦‍♂️

I find the history behind astrology is far more interesting than "what it means". It's ancient, like older than all the current practiced religions ancient and pre-dates writing. What inspired people millennia ago to develop it? And what made people pass it down so strongly? And why, unlike other ancient religions, is it still widely believed today? It's an interesting topic I think is overshadowed by people arguing over if it's real, or why someone believes it.

Good Job!!! :D

Thanks so much for educating me, now I feel like I finally have a good response to whenver some random dude asks what my star sign is

Excellent content laden

I always knew that those statements are generic description. But I enjoyed this video as it finally gives me a name to this theory.

Everybody gangsta till astrology tells you how your childhood was

Great vid. Does the Barnum effect play into other areas of life when people are trying to build trust quickly?

"The Wisdom of the Enneagram" book, scored as a #5, read the whole chapter on them, thought it was more convincing due to it's darker themes, and having more "specific-but-general" type of statements. But I was skeptical enough to doubt it if it was merely a projection of what I wanted to see.

After the video finished, KZread showed me an ad for psychics!

Awesome video

@SmartbyDesign

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Linkard!

A Psychic Donna ad played before this video

@lenasiemiesz399

6 жыл бұрын

lol.

A fortune teller (She had said some secrets that in the deep of my mind which I never tell others, and many of the predictions that she said before had come true now ) who I have been believed so much said that I had lost the chance to pass the test (I want to transfer to another college). Furthermore, she told me that I should not get married in the future, for the reason that I would bring some bad effects to him(I am just 20 years old and never fall in love before, why tell me so cruel prediction ㅠ_ㅠ). After hearing her predictions, I've been felt great depression until now, because I don't look forward to my future, I still feel worried now. I am studying hard for my transferring test now, but I cried for many times when I recalling her predictions. Do I fell victim to the Barnum Effect? The only thing that I can do now is to believe in myself. I get some comfort after watching this video, thanks to Smart by Design. Hope someone to encourage me...

@Nachtness

5 жыл бұрын

use reverse psychoIIogy at yourseIf by think what she says are reversed

@hwonnystimezone8113

5 жыл бұрын

Kyosuke Machii 😊 thank you ~~ I had persuaded myself that she want to encourage me by saying that words, just like the reverse psychology!

@hwonnystimezone8113

5 жыл бұрын

@Thelondonbadger i am female I really worried about what she said three months ago,but now i know that she is just an acumen observer, just like you said,she is a scam artist! Thanks for your response~~^^

@hwonnystimezone8113

5 жыл бұрын

@Thelondonbadger i am twenty and i am from 🇹🇼 (⬅️do you know it?😂) Are you from London?

Does the Barnum effect explain the apparent (i.e., perceived) specificity and accuracy of personality descriptions in astrological natal birth charts?

@GGora

4 жыл бұрын

Clearly not. I’ve been reading charts of 90 plus strangers from 22 nations. All online, on a public platform and my interaction w these people is at zero. Check my fiverr link and my reviews on my channel. These random strangers have no images or names. My readings are scarily accurate and detailed. Include timing of events. Past and future as well. Feedbacks are so positive re accuracy that even scares me at times. This is yet another jargon and BS D grade scientists use in order to explain a reality they are too stupid or lazy to do a research on or even listen to those of us who have.

@simpleeazy1018

4 жыл бұрын

Your profile pic is creeping me out

@PsionixYT

4 жыл бұрын

Giti Oracle lol you really left a comment just to say "my scam is very legit, logic is stupid, check my fiverr out"

@GGora

4 жыл бұрын

@@PsionixYT and next time, do look at the LEVEL of people you are trying to address. I am not in level of 'LOL" sorta comments. Please stick to your LEVEL.

@GGora

4 жыл бұрын

@@PsionixYT eally sorry for you if that’s what you perceived. My “ fiverr” study which has taken 1000s of hours and I’m beyond proud of it, is in collaboration with several MIT data scientists and maybe if you had the brain, you’d be interested in checking it out after it is published. REAL scientists are proud of what I’ve done, instead of D grade condescending arrogant ignorant scientists of today, people in your level, quite clearly, who know nothing about a topic and are too lazy to research and study and inform themselves on a topic which as taken me 7 years, YET, have the audacity to comment on it! Truly, you couldn’t come to comprehend how despicable of a level you belong to and consider yourself lucky that you are incapable of such basic human perceptions. You couldn’t live with yourself if you had.

I thought the title said "why people believe in astrology and physics," and I was curious what those two had in common since one is a genuine science and one is a psudo science. But, yeah, psychics makes a ton more sense.

@atalantak9205

2 жыл бұрын

I misread "physics" too. But I thought it made sense. How can one believe both in science AND astrology at the same time? (And not spot the discrepancy there)

Me: haha zodiac dumb Also me: still hopes that I can turn into a dragon and firebend because I was born in the year of the dragon in the chinese zodiac.

@misteranonymous5616

3 жыл бұрын

Dracarys

@Player-gx1eo

2 жыл бұрын

Are you Pisces?

I hope I remember these Barnum effect words when a friend ask what my sign is! Getting old and the brain is dying

Mbti and jungian typography is probably what gets me most, although I also tend to remain incredibly skeptical of most of my results.

those stats are wrong. theyre taking the percentage of the TOTAL population instead of the percentage of the ppl who actually took the poll.

I don't believe in the Barnum effect because the Barnum effect told me I don't believe in it.

I don't want to believe in astrology. But sometimes I cant help but notice that certain signs are similar

@loupitchachacha8707

3 жыл бұрын

Because of the Barnum effect... I personally notice it is almost always totally wrong!

@dolphingang3767

2 жыл бұрын

Do you think it might be confirmation bias ?

Introvertness hype ..ie.. most people think that they are introvert and these statements also increases the intensity of the feeling ..as u know.. introvertness is in trend 😶 sad ... Not everyone is introvert ... But everyone analyse himself or herself intj or fj in mbti 😐

Astrology - make em pay to learn more about how human they are.

someone who claim to be a psychic do the said "reading" about me. and he mumble stuffs. i told the person, "thats too generic. even my friend over here feel that way. do you have something more espicific? Something that i dont know yet?" then he goes mad.

@PURPLE.REIGN.1999

4 жыл бұрын

Cold reading. That's why the best cold readers start with a large group of people. The more people in the group the more they can get a gullible person to raise their hand, then divert to another person claiming that the spirit left or some other bogus crap.

"And now, you know better"

One day in San Francisco I was walking through 24th and Mission and I was approached by a fortune teller and she said your heart tells you something and your mind told you something else and you don't know which one to listen to and then she told me she would give me a reading I told her I had no money and she told me to come back when I did I never did of course because I am too smart for this kind of trick I knew it was a scam

Ask me anything I'll tell you something I know nothing

oooof you know im swaying to believe this but im learning tarot reading, read my friends cards a few days ago and got one that mentioned someone wasn't sure about the relationship, and one that he would be doing rougery type stuff, at least thats how i read the cards, anyways, next day were playing ninja storm 2 and he's all frustrated because he called a girl cute through fb and she told his GF. weird ass experience, and its not the first. idk i believe the barnum effect is real, because one of his cards was about his past, mentioned he was a happy kid but had to mature fast, made sense, hes the oldest, went to jail at an early age and such so he grew up quick. things like that i see as a barnum, because it can apply to everyone. but idk guys, tarot reading has had too many coincidences for me to disregard as a psychology effect, i wont deny that its not true, like the whole pendulum thing or the quija board moving because our muscle are doing this reflex thingy. interesting vid.

@Onlylettuce92

4 жыл бұрын

The tarot is real! I don’t care what anyone saids, tooo many freaky things I’ve read from it and it came true. TOO MANY THINGS!!!!

@gohaster

4 жыл бұрын

@@Onlylettuce92 confirmation bias.

@ElvireTanks

3 жыл бұрын

just commented something similar, ty

How do you rate the comparison of psychological testing to the Barnum Effect / Horoscopes and Fortune Tellers? I took the MMPI many years ago at the VA to have recently learned that my test results were entered into my medical records, by a different name, days before I was administer the actual testing. The VHA defends this anomaly by claiming special psychic, clairvoyant, abilities. It just so happens that I had scored the same as Mr. Johnson; so they say. The VHA thus claims that "Mr. Johnson" was a typing error. But, again, as it turns out there wasn't a Mr. Johnson taking any psychological testing the day of or days before Mr. Johnson's results were entered into my medical records. Mr. Johnson's test results were copy and pasted from a prewritten template. So; if psychological testing is foreseeable enough to predict an outcome before administering the tests then wouldn't those test scores be the norm and thus invalid, if not the norm? If more people than not score "above average" on the validity scale then wouldn't that invalidate the test scoring? Once more, if my test results are predictable enough to be scored prior to administering such tests then shouldn't I have scored within the normal range: of which Mr. Johnson (I) somehow didn't?

About 5 years ago a fortune cookie said 'luxurious surroundings will soon be yours'. So much for that. Beyond the barnum effect, add cold and warm reading, if the astrologer/psychic meets you or can find anything about you from, say, your social media activity.

i read the title as physics and not psychics and i was like "what's wrong with physics?"

Stupid people fall for such stuff. Now I gotta leave as there are hot singles in my area dying to meet me

I did a similar test as picking the star signs description that describes you, I hide the names of the signs and sent them to 3 people at the end of every day over the span of a week. They were almost always correctly, i think it was 17 or 18 correct out of 19 tests.

I took the test in college, and the same results happened then too.

"there are still endless mysteries we dont understand about the universe, but astrology is dumb just cause"

are there transcripts on your website?

I believe the Barnum Effect is real but it only really fits sun sign horoscopes. If people knew how complex it can get, I don’t think they could correlate it to this. Ultimately, a person just isn’t going to get it if they don’t make an honest effort to learn it for themselves, beyond just sun, moon, and rising signs.

@sonja7halcyon

7 ай бұрын

100% agree. It's extremely complex. The problem is most people believe they know what it's about without making any effort to actually study it, in which it takes a long time to grasp the depths and complexity of it. Daily magazine horoscopes and sun sign astrology is total BS to a real astrologer and the astrological community are exhausted with the general publics obsession with these watered-down tropes.

Once upon a time, before advances in genetics, astrology was a compelling hypothesis: There were lots of couples, usually with lots of children each, but the children were all different, except when they weren't. But even most twins are only fraternal. But all children from single births are only fraternal. Why? It seems reasonable to assume, that there is only ever a very narrow window of opportunity for a child to be born with specific characteristics, so narrow in fact, that only in the minority of twin births children are both born in the same period resulting in their characteristics. Since time was measured astronomically, it would be natural to assume that a science of astrology were possible. At that point, the usual tragedy would have followed. People devoted to genuine scientific thought would have made no progress in this field of study, so that it would have fallen to the usual suspects. To be fair, astrologers to absolute monarchs risked their lives, so they would have done their utmost to be worthy advisers, regardless of how their advice was actually derived. Without making a statement as to whether real psychics exist, most people today advertising themselves as such will at least be motivated to give the best advice they can, if only to get repeat business, so for those who can't handle their own lives it is entirely possible that even consulting a fake psychic will be money well spent. One would wish she same were true from buying a newspaper …

Very well done! A succinct, logical presentation. Unfortunately, it won't change my Aunt Millie's mind (she's 89 yo and credits her horoscope with her longevity). The Barnum Effect could also speak to the flat earth beliefs.

I came here after watching a comic bashing Astrology, but here they are. This is how much kasamba.com trusts people, they just put out an ad for "Psychic for you" before a psychic bashing scientific result. I am pretty sure they would've got some hits tho.

@vidushisrivastava2876

5 жыл бұрын

Varun thakur right? 😂

@jinjo001

5 жыл бұрын

@@vidushisrivastava2876 Tell me you haven't subscribed to kasamba yet!?! LOL YEAH .

honestly even if its fake its nice to get "personalized" advice when u need it. advice is advice and if its helping someone why not?

@adonisbarlay3292

3 жыл бұрын

??why would u want fake advice?also some people are to the extreme about it and live by fake advice(choose friends and partners based on signs and moons)

@orlandogarcia3217

3 жыл бұрын

If you can’t use common sense or logic to advice urself and are cool with some dumbass reading u cards or signs and telling u a bunch of bullshit o make u feel better then u are a fucking stupid fuck

@MishaLUL

2 жыл бұрын

You'd rather take pleasant lies than harsh truths?

If someone wants to believe in something true or false let them it does not affect you unless you let it

Is there a way i can contact you?

Astrology gives people a feeling of certainty and safety. The unknown and uncertain can freak people out. It is easier to believe than to question it and stress about it.

"BUZZQUIZ" I'm fucking dead. Lol.

The funniest part to me is 2:20... basically it is a statement people would self identify with, but if it were actually true, they wouldn't be as inclined to believe the BS assessment they were handed. It reminds me a lot of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

What i’m wondering is if you think there is real personality tests that can be found on the internet

2 of my close friends struggle to understand this concept so they always try to force conversations about pro sports being rigged, how all numbers form some pattern, and other claims of mysticism

But how does they tell about events happened in our past.

Horoscopes have been debunked because of the Goss twins. One is cool and the other...not so much... ...you decide?

Ouch so this is how it all started with me

Personality tests are a bit different as we all know you're going to retry it until you get a question you like

I have insanely good luck with fortune cookies. When i was on my second date with my wife, her fortune cookie said "you are sitting across from the love of your life" I owe whoever wrote that a huge thank you.

What this proves is how susceptible people are to the Barnum effect and it's use in commercial astrology and fake psychics. However, this does not actually disprove real astrology and real psychics. I won't speak on psychics as it's not my area of expertise, but I have 10 years experience with astrology after being a hardcore skeptic of it for my whole life previous to 10 years ago, and still to this day it astonishes me and challenges the skeptic in me. The problem is that most people think they know what astrology is, as I did, without having spent any genuine time and effort in trying to understand what it is. Trying to disprove astrology without knowing anything about it in depth, is akin to trying to disprove the results of a medical study published by a peer-reviewed journal without having any training or education in medicine. It's just not possible because you cannot speak on the subject in the first place. If you don't know what you're trying to disprove, how can you disprove it? Any real astrologer will tell you that Sun sign astrology and magazine horoscopes are complete BS and real astrologers are exhausted with the publics obsession with these watered-down tropes. Astrology is actually extremely complex and takes a long time to understand. I wish more people would take some time to try to understand it before judging it. Unfortunately, to try to understand it you need to be willing to take it seriously in the first place, and study it like you would any other discipline or art form. Most are unwilling, so we get this watered-down debunking BS in tandem with the watered-down astrology BS.

idk bro, I'm a libra and libra are well known to like breathing, good food and having fun with friends... which I do !! Isn't it amazing how accurate it is ?

But will they believe something if u tell em though all human logic is human created anyway.

It happens in culture too. That’s why stereotyping traits can be counter productive, however I’m sure it has its usefulness somewhere… as conjecture maybe.

I wish all the people who keep falling for the Enneagram would realize it's just as arbitrary as the zodiac descriptions.

I clicked Bc I thought it said astronomy and physics

@realeyes8199

4 жыл бұрын

So, it means you don't believe in astrology, right? Just to confirm.

@komodosp

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I too wanted to know why those gullible fools believe in astronomy and physics...

After this video ended, there was an ad of kasamba, where people can find psychics. Irony. KZread algorithm fell for the Barnum effect.

Just I clicked this video, there was an advert for some test by "Angel Oasis" which you can take to name the name of your guardian angel. The first thing that came to mind was, what a funny way to start a video about Barnum effect, with an advert for a test obviously using Barnum statements. 😁 Not related to the one above. A once saw an quiz on Facebook, which said I would be married at 23. I was laughing so hard for I was 51 when I took that test. Those test on Facebook mostly are also good examples of the Barnum effects. Why, if you click on the button to try again, another different statement would pop up which would be to your liking. I do that just for fun by finding the funniest statement I would find and then share it on my page. With some funny comment to match.

This is how the Enneagram seems to work.

Just now i got an ad that said "THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS. NO HASARDS." Damn bro stop it

Nothing is stated about the fact they told each group in the second test both that each group got awareness if it was personified or general and then second, the effect that simple info made intheir decision-making

I know someone in the house that does 'tarot readings' for a living and I can't help but cringe everytime. LOL

LOL @ that 3rd statement