PSYC 4030 Study Guide - Final Guide: James Randi, Psychic Surgery, Horoscope
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How did james randi demonstrate to the college students how they could be fooled by. James randi demonstrated that horoscopes fooled people by having general situations for everyone that could be true. He proved this by giving horoscopes to each individual in a college class. Then after reading the horoscope, he asked people to pass the horoscopes around and it turns out, all of the horoscopes were the same. This proved that people were fooled by asked who the horoscope applied to. After several students raised their hand, he the general sayings that the horoscope provided. Randi pointed out that the scientists had a confirmation bias going in to the experiment. They figured that their observation was not objective and cannot measure through electrochemical impulses. They did not do a double- blind study which was needed. Randi demonstrated that psychic surgery could be performed using trickery, where, in most cases, there is no.
