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To: street_lawyer

Reading body language is a valid activity and its even more valuable in specific circumstances: interview and interrogation, jury selection, intelligence analysis, etc.

But Tanya R. just really isn’t very good. She should just admit 2/3rds of the time that it is impossible for her to give any kind of meaningful interpretation based on 10 seconds of video while viewing a subject she has never seen before.

Also, if she is a hypnotist then she is probably also doing other stuff which is somewhere close to made up. I know this is hard for a lot of people to digest, but hypotism doesn’t exist. There literally is no such thing. There is nothing happening. There is no way to prove that anything at all is taking place therefore it is a totally imagined event. It is literally just one person talking to another in an authoritative way. No trances, no seances, no special powers.

Its simply talking - kinda like when Hillary was ‘talking’ to Eleanor Roosevelt back in 1993. Any possible gains are from positive suggestion which results from the subjects own willingness to believe it. (IE, its all in ones own mind).

If somebody is putting ‘hypnotist’ on their card or resume’, they might as well put ‘con artist’ or ‘faith healer’ as well.


10 posted on 12/31/2007 6:41:09 PM PST by bpjam (Harry Reid doesn't even have 32% of my approval)
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To: bpjam
I watch the body language of witnesses and jurors all the time. Perhaps there is a “science” of body language, but anyone who has to convince people to make a decision better have the ability to read body language.

Full disclosure: I watch the Factor occasionally, but I’m not an O’Reilly fan and Tonya is just a joke, as Bill gushes all over her like she is some kind of sage. Or maybe she just has good ratings?.

12 posted on 12/31/2007 6:57:18 PM PST by street_lawyer (Conservative Defender of the Faith)
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