Psychics

I found this really interesting article about how psychics read you.

I find particulary interesting the different experiments. They give people a fake personality test, but give everyone the same personality profile. Everyone thinks the profile accurately describes them! (Unlike other personality tests that actually have different results.

Although in another experiment, they had people pick a horoscope personality and had zero correlation to actual birth dates. Unless they knew which horoscopes they were supposed to be. The placebo effect works quite well. If you believe in it.

I read the horoscope aloud to blind people each week. They are much less convincing when you read all 12, because they're all the same. Especially on New Year's Eve, when all the horoscopes had really bad corny phrases about old acquaintances and resolutions.