Dear Atheist Bob,
How is palmistry able to give such accurate predictions ?
What is the science behind it?
Chazz
Dear Chazz,
Palmistry is junk. It’s a way for swindlers to make money off of gullible people.
From Wikipedia:
“The practice of chiromancy [palmistry] is regarded by many as a pseudoscience, and no hard scientific evidence has been found to back up claims of veracity. It should be noted that the information outlined below is representative of modern palmistry; there are many – often conflicting – interpretations of various lines and palmar features across various “schools” of palmistry. None of these interpretations have been verified by any objective scientific research.”
One technique used by palm readers but also used bysalespeople, interrogators, church pastors, hypnotists, psychics, graphologists, palmists, astrologers, and con men is called “cold reading,” which, generally speaking, refers to any technique with which the interviewer finds information from the interviewee without any prior knowledge.
More specifically, it refers to a handful of techniques (such as “shotgunning”) that usually involve the interviewer tossing out several general facts or questions to see what elicits a reaction and getting more specific from that point on.
2 years ago
Source(s):
www.wikipedia.org
http://www.skepdic.com/coldread.html
Atheist Bob
