Just finished watching the 1st episode.
The search for the missing boy was problematic. The area was bounded and the "psychics" were told when they had reached a boundary. This limits the search area. Also after the first attempt, even if the camera crew were unaware of the boy's location before, they were for every subsequent search which could possibly bias the results.
Only one moved almost directly towards where the boy was hidden. She said, he's near some burnt trees, well you could look in any direction and find burnt trees.
I found the overhead map misleading. They showed the boy's position as a red dot, but the psychic was always shown as a yellow arrow, almost always pointing towards the boy's position.
The "psychics" should not have been allowed into the search area as almost all of them claimed remote viewing ability and should have limited their work to pointing on a map. That would be their only attempt, instead the format allowed them to keep searching and changing their paths during a 15 minute time limit.
The stage performances later on were rather poor except for the last man who "read" only one person and was making significant hits about fairly specific information. Again without revealing any mentalism methods, I have replicated this but I would generally do it with more than one person.
Dave Everett
The search for the missing boy was problematic. The area was bounded and the "psychics" were told when they had reached a boundary. This limits the search area. Also after the first attempt, even if the camera crew were unaware of the boy's location before, they were for every subsequent search which could possibly bias the results.
Only one moved almost directly towards where the boy was hidden. She said, he's near some burnt trees, well you could look in any direction and find burnt trees.
I found the overhead map misleading. They showed the boy's position as a red dot, but the psychic was always shown as a yellow arrow, almost always pointing towards the boy's position.
The "psychics" should not have been allowed into the search area as almost all of them claimed remote viewing ability and should have limited their work to pointing on a map. That would be their only attempt, instead the format allowed them to keep searching and changing their paths during a 15 minute time limit.
The stage performances later on were rather poor except for the last man who "read" only one person and was making significant hits about fairly specific information. Again without revealing any mentalism methods, I have replicated this but I would generally do it with more than one person.
Dave Everett
