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Not that I believe in the whole psychic thing but isn't the old "why don't you know the lottery numbers" thing a bit of a pointless argument, don't they need the human connection to use their so called "powers", from what I've seen they usually need to know a little about the person involved or need to have/hold something they own, seeing as lottery numbers would be randomly picked by a computer, it obviously wouldn't be possible even if they do have the ability? If it exists. Just sayin :p

As far as actually answering the question, if you don't know how to build the app yourself natively, obviously it's going to cost you to get it developed, if you know a little web development skills(Javascript, CSS etc.), you could possibly learn to make it via the likes of Ionic or PhoneGap. I know Ionic has a drag and drop version.
 
ThingyMajiggy said:
Not that I believe in the whole psychic thing but isn't the old "why don't you know the lottery numbers" thing a bit of a pointless argument, don't they need the human connection to use their so called "powers", from what I've seen they usually need to know a little about the person involved or need to have/hold something they own, seeing as lottery numbers would be randomly picked by a computer, it obviously wouldn't be possible even if they do have the ability? If it exists. Just sayin :p
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I guess it's a matter of determining whether they actually have psychic powers or are just "cold reading" their subjects; ie reading their body language and prompting them in the right direction.

An ability to predict the future. ie picking the lotto numbers would certainly be a test of actual psychic ability, as for the human factor there was a guy called Edgar Cayce who sometimes gave accurate predictions of individuals futures , back in the days before radio mikes.
 
Tisme said:
Randi made an income out of debunking people who seemed all too conveniently available and rehearsed for Randi to debunk.
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Are you saying that guy in the video I linked wasn't a traveling the states for years earning millions of dollars before rand bankrupted him?

there is no need to fake debunking, there is no shortage of people out their spinning nonsense. you only need to go as far as your local news paper to find adverts of people claiming to be psychics etc
 
For those that don't know what cold reading is.

These psychics are not apply supernatural skills, they are applying magicians tricks. the part at the 4.40 min mark where he talks about phrasing questions so that both yes and no answers will be considered correct is very interesting.

 
Value Collector said:
Are you saying that guy in the video I linked wasn't a traveling the states for years earning millions of dollars before rand bankrupted him?

there is no need to fake debunking, there is no shortage of people out their spinning nonsense. you only need to go as far as your local news paper to find adverts of people claiming to be psychics etc
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Plus not forgetting the James Randi Foundation had up until recently an offer of $1M for the first psychic or clairvoyant to prove their abilities under scientific tests. Many so-called celebrity psychics said when asked whether they would do the test agreed to when the question was put to them on live television, but once out of the public limelight failed to take up the offer.

Also, the guy in the video was not the only high profile one debunked. Uri Geller also failed when asked to do his stuff in Randi's presence.
 
bellenuit said:
Plus not forgetting the James Randi Foundation had up until recently an offer of $1M for the first psychic or clairvoyant to prove their abilities under scientific tests. Many so-called celebrity psychics said when asked whether they would do the test agreed to when the question was put to them on live television, but once out of the public limelight failed to take up the offer.

Also, the guy in the video was not the only high profile one debunked. Uri Geller also failed when asked to do his stuff in Randi's presence.
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I don't deny the possibility that real psychics may exist, it's just that I don't think they would be advertising themselves if they were smart, it could create too many problems.

e.g. if someone had psychic powers that would enable them to solve unsolved crimes, that would automatically make them a danger to a lot of criminals who would then try and bump them off, the same if they could pick the Lotto numbers, James Packer wouldn't like that very much and a lot of would be Lotto winners might get the idea to abduct the psychic and force him to use his power for their benefit.

Best to just shut up and make the best of what you have from behind the scenes.
 
Value Collector said:
Are you saying that guy in the video I linked wasn't a traveling the states for years earning millions of dollars before rand bankrupted him?

there is no need to fake debunking, there is no shortage of people out their spinning nonsense. you only need to go as far as your local news paper to find adverts of people claiming to be psychics etc
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I'm saying nothing is off the table when it comes to entertainers, charlatans, grifters, etc.

And your junior level maths on sets, subsets and loci should remind you that not everthing has to be constrained within one truth.

If you wanted to make a buck you could create a fallacy by working on the back of thousand of years of trickery. jiggery and pokery, simply by putting some stooge in a TV show a few months ahead of the big debunk get together = $$$$$

That becomes the bread and butter, which finances some legit stuff for even more credibility and more slight of hand. Who's to say someone wouldn't overdub a microphone conversation...especially in a nation that lauds dishonestly.

Just because someone puts out a challenge, which for sure one of his stooges would immediately front up to cameras, but never actually perform, doesn't mean anything except he has created a situation that no one had an interested in the first place. Marketing does this all the time, creating a synthetic need on a non existent service to exploit the credibility of another product/service.
 
anyone watch pen and teller last night channel 22 @8.00 pm eastern time
they make some interesting comments about this subject during one of the acts.
 

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