I just happened across an old episode of Mythbuster Adam Savage on Penn Jillette’s radio show. A very interesting exchange on what cold readers are really up to, and what it says about human communication in general.
One way to read this is to be horrified. Another is to marvel at the counter intuitiveness of how we regularly communicate. But no mater what, for me, this underscores precisely WHY I want to rob people of their credulity in all respects, whether towards woo or religion.
