Diabolos
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- Jul 25, 2005
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Derren Brown's new series (Trick of the Mind) started last night in the UK and included the following segment:
DB gets a group of 5 people to each draw an image on a piece of paper around their handprint, write down their date of birth, and place a personal trinket of some sort along with the piece of paper into an envelope, one per person. The envelopes are mixed so DB doesn't know which is which. He then goes into another room for about an hour to prepare a personality profile for each of the participants. This same stunt is performed in the UK, the USA and somewhere foreign (Portugal?).
When they study their own reading they are all staggered at it's accuracy, nearly all of them rating it between 80-99% correct. DB then gets them to swap over the readings when they discover that they are all in fact identical.
It was nicely done, and at least the participants went away saying they would be more cautious about these type of readings in the future.
DB gets a group of 5 people to each draw an image on a piece of paper around their handprint, write down their date of birth, and place a personal trinket of some sort along with the piece of paper into an envelope, one per person. The envelopes are mixed so DB doesn't know which is which. He then goes into another room for about an hour to prepare a personality profile for each of the participants. This same stunt is performed in the UK, the USA and somewhere foreign (Portugal?).
When they study their own reading they are all staggered at it's accuracy, nearly all of them rating it between 80-99% correct. DB then gets them to swap over the readings when they discover that they are all in fact identical.
It was nicely done, and at least the participants went away saying they would be more cautious about these type of readings in the future.
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