Is there a reason?I ask because well known psychic Sylvia Browne said it.I checked the Obits and it's correct.What's going on?
2007-10-21 19:51:44 · 18 answers · asked by Dr. NG 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Alternative ➔ Paranormal Phenomena
Johnny V,it's absolutly true.It's not as weird as it sounds.I got it from Skeptical Inquirer magazine.
2007-10-22 01:26:56 · update #1
Dave s,why are you so angry all the time?Seems to me you are the one doing the baiting.Have a nice day.
2007-10-22 02:03:48 · update #2
Sarah,I do believe it.In this case she is right.I don't believe she is a psychic,that'a true.This time she's right on.I mention her because she's the source of the information.I only wanted people to figure out why she was right.So far only one person has.See you were fooled,by yourself not me.By the way,the profile you've made of me is wrong.You've made judgements that are incorrect.
2007-10-22 05:36:52 · update #3
Dave,what a terrible thing to ask.I'll bet you delete that one as well.
2007-10-22 05:39:52 · update #4
Statistically, because three months either direction means within a 7 month period. That would mean you have a 7 out of 12 chance of dying withing that period. Unfortunately, any psychic can make any claim and base it on percentages and be correct most of the time. With your question the per centage wound be about 84%.
I can make a prediction based on the same formula and it will invariable come true. A commercial airplane will crash withing the next 12 months. It will have the colors red or blue on the tail. There will be fatalities. Now watch the news for the next year or so and that will actually happen. However, this prediction is not based on any psychic ability. About 95% of all the airlines in the world use the colors red or blue on their tails. Based on the approximate intervals that planes crash, usually at least one every 8 or 9 months, on average, there will be a plane crash within the next year or so. Even if I am off by a month or two, the fact that there should be one of the colors mentioned, I can claim success and boast how psychic I was. Be carefull of claims made by those who make their living this way. vagaritys are the spice of their proffesion.
2007-10-21 20:11:35 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas S 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
When you have posted in the same section for a period of time, people get a profile of your identity, and now all of a sudden you are asking questions like you really care, but they are set ups to make people that agree with you look foolish.
I just wanted to let you know that I know what you are doing.
You are quoting Silvia Brown like you believe it, when all of your past comments on her have been negative. Hmmmmmm. The sad thing is that you really think you are fooling others for your enjoyment.
2007-10-22 05:12:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
This isn't actually that surprising. If you die within 3 months of the month you were born, there is a 6 month window, so there is a 50% chance of dying within 3 months. However, probability doesn't work out perfect in the real world, so this is just one of those things.
2007-10-21 19:57:32 · answer #3 · answered by jlao04 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
To die within 3 months of when you were born basically gives you 6 months (3 before and 3 after) to die in so it's only a 50/50 chance that you die in that period. To me it's not really that remarkable.
2007-10-21 19:57:03 · answer #4 · answered by Harry Callaghan 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They don't. Matter of fact, I'd say that there's a 58% chance of people dying three months of the month they were born in. How so?
Three months before + The month you were born + Three months after = Within 3 months of the month you were born = 7 months
7 months / 12 months in a year = .58 = 58% chance of dying within three months of the month you were born in.
Peace
2007-10-22 08:44:52 · answer #5 · answered by Eh Dee 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because there's only 12 months in a year and that makes the odds of if happening pretty high.
2007-10-22 07:10:15 · answer #6 · answered by inquiring black beauty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well seeing there are only 12 months in the year, its not such a strange anomaly, using a so-called psychic estimation thats either in the 3 months before or 3 months after gives you a 50/50 chance.
2007-10-21 19:56:19 · answer #7 · answered by conranger1 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I love Sylvia Browne, and I have never heard her say this. That is interesting because my mom just passed away last July and her birthday would have been coming up in September. My grandma passed in July also and her birthday would have been in November (4 months)
Very interesting.
2007-10-21 19:57:10 · answer #8 · answered by Lucy 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Just a statistic, it really means nothing! The fact that 3 months is most common is just just what the average is!
2007-10-22 01:24:09 · answer #9 · answered by maur911 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have no idea...good question...i guess it just happens that way, you just have a higher chance for dying around 3 months near your birthday...life works in mysterious ways, yep yep
2007-10-21 19:56:24 · answer #10 · answered by SaMuNiN aKa ReM 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋