Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Gumdrop
Jean Dixon even had the Jean Dixon Effect or Jean Dixon Fallacy named after her.

The Jeane Dixon effect refers to the tendency of the mass media to hype or exaggerate a few correct predictions by a psychic, guaranteeing that they will be remembered, while forgetting or ignoring the much more numerous incorrect predictions.

Spray a shotgun pattern of predictions out there, then go back later and cherry pick the one or two hits and build a career on talking about them. Here, I'll start... There will be a big war this century. A popular model of car will be recalled. The railroad industry will have major changes. A Republican will be elected to high office in the 2030s. A water shortage will threaten a large city. An airplane crash will kill a well-loved celebrity some day.

18 posted on 09/03/2012 4:32:58 AM PDT by eartrumpet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]


To: eartrumpet
Precisely.

Nostradamus came to mind when reading your post.

20 posted on 09/03/2012 4:45:11 AM PDT by Carbonsteel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies ]

To: eartrumpet

You forgot one: There will be turmoil in the Middle East.


27 posted on 09/03/2012 5:33:04 AM PDT by Lucas McCain (Eat a live frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen for the rest of the day.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson