Cold reading
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title:
Cold reading
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Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums. Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of information by analyzing the person's body language, age, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. during a line of questioning. Cold readings commonly employ high-probability guesses, quickly picking up on signals as to
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Set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading
date created:
2003-01-17T21:38:51Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T05:58:28Z
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