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Jake, I am aware of all that: and you, my Danish compatriot (although I'm only 50% Dane!) are probably as sceptical now as I was when I met the lady.

I merely recounted one small part of my experience with Mary Rose. Sure one could set up experiments to check up on these things, particularly in respect of the charlatans out there - and I am sure there are many. This lady makes no "claims", she did not advertise, and people came to her purely through word of mouth.

This was entirely different to my expectations: you really had to be there. There was no script, it was quite matter of fact: she didn't ask me anything about anything. She actually volunteers things which come into her mind, using the cards as an aid.

And there was IMHO no "rational" way that she could have come up with what she did.

But then that's just my opinion.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 12:28:15 PM EST
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While I cannot, since the documentation is no longer available, analyse what happened in that tent with forensic precision, what you write sounds more like a warm reading than anything remotely extraordinary. I don't doubt that you experienced something, but experience does not substitute for controlled experiment when it comes to being persuasive, and given the number of fly-by-night psychics and mediums (and the paucity of credible ones) I am disinclined to give this one the benefit of the doubt.

- Jake

The plural of anecdote is not data.

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 03:26:02 PM EST
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