2007-04-21 05:35:06 · 33 answers · asked by Candy B 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Let me help you...YOU'RE NOT!!
2007-04-21 05:36:44 · answer #1 · answered by Lal 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Interestingly, certain personality types seem to be reported as the "most psychic." It doesn't mean any of them have psychic powers and the evidence is strongly that none of them do. However, the group seems to have an intuitive insight into near term interpersonal events. They also tend to be reported as the most seductive.
If you really want to test if you are psychic, find someone to get an unmarked pack of cards and shuffle them. Have them go out of your line of sight so you cannot see the expression on their face and predict which card they are looking at. It is very important that you cannot see them.
In an ordinary deck, there is one chance in fifty-two that you will pick the first card correctly. As long as you do not know how many right or wrong you get until the entire exercise is over, you can use the sign test to determine if the matches are likely due to chance or if they are due to some other factor, which could be psychic powers. As long as your sample is large enough you should get some matches and you can estimate the likelihood that the matches did not happen by chance.
If you are among the group that people both self-report and also others report as most psychic, then it is very important that you cannot see their face as you are not reading the cards you are reading their expressions and affect.
If you have never had a statistics course and do not know how to calculate combinations, then you can use Microsoft Excel to get an approximation.
Go to Insert and hit function, choose statistical functions and choose BINOMDIST.
It will pop up a box called function arguments.
In the field Number_s, put in the number of perfect matches.
In Trials put down the total number of attemtps.
In Probability_s put in 1/52 (if there are no jokers used)
In Cumulative put TRUE.
It will give you an answer which is the probability your observations were not due to chance, so a very high value such as .98 means that there was a 98% likelihood that it wasn't a chance effect.
Because the odds of picking correctly on a 52 card deck are so low, it takes very few matches to get a high value.
Just be sure that the cards are not replaced, you do not know anything about how you are doing until it is over, you cannot see the other person and in no way do they communicate with you through sight or sound. They need to make sure they don't even sigh, for example.
Make a sheet of corrects versus incorrects and just tally the answers.
2007-04-21 05:50:47 · answer #2 · answered by OPM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are all psychic, but for the majority the gift or the belief has been long knocked out of them. Educated out is another way of looking at it. Many professional psychics have grown up in a psychic friendly environment. Perhaps a grand-parent or parent with the knowledge has helped bring the extra sense out in the open and encouraged its use. But there are as many practicing psychics who have not had the benefit of caring psychic guidance and who have still managed to develop and hone this natural extra sense.
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2007-04-21 09:11:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go to the nearest Spiritualist church and ask them, they are used to this sort of question, and may invite you to join a group of budding psychics that are learning to channel. Don't go to just anyone as in case you are really opening psychically then if instructed wrongly this could be potentially dangerous or harmful.
2007-04-21 07:04:38 · answer #4 · answered by rose1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well that's an extremely doubtful claim, but go to a psychic and find out, if you're into that kinda stuff of course; if not then just forget about it, it's probably not true
2007-04-21 05:38:40 · answer #5 · answered by theshrabster 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no reason to prove you are psychic.
You may be insightful, have the ability to read people, or even have an empathic ability that allows you to almost instantly truely know how someone is feeling, so strong that you dont understand why you know, but sadly, the label psychic - is a falsehood.
2007-04-21 05:40:43 · answer #6 · answered by Ian 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you know what people are going to say in their answers to this question? If not, you are probably not psychic.
2007-04-21 05:37:23 · answer #7 · answered by Sam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell me my birthday and sign and i may think there is a possibility....Most of us get premonitions but it doesn't make us psychic...
2007-04-21 05:43:19 · answer #8 · answered by trish b 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are tonight's lotto numbers? If you're right then you are psychic.
2007-04-21 05:40:59 · answer #9 · answered by Buster 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hate to break it to you but either you're observant or conincidence just happens more often for you, no such thing as psychic, trust me if there was one, i would have won the lottery by now ;]
2007-04-21 05:38:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are a psychic, wouldn't you know?
2007-04-21 05:36:54 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋