Derren Brown: Archive
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From: Blue Chip
Date: Fri Dec 27, 2002 7:35pm
Subject: Re: Stupid Statistics
>A fact ? : When I imagine someone thinking that Derren Brown can
>tell a word with some kind of "throat reading", I can't stop
>laughing !
You have inspired my curiosity once more, I now *have* to ask: How do you
speculate that the "throat reading" effect is created? Maybe you could
take a single example and break it down?
I am also interested how you would term his letter/picture/card forcing
routine(s) - once realised, they are quite obvious and predictable. But
this really is "conversation planting ideas", techniques well established
and described by NLP documentation!?
>Ok, I try to formulate this in a different way : of course I didn't
>count the posts to elaborate some kind of statistical study (it
>could be fun!). In fact, I wanted to say that 90% (read : almost the
>whole) of the pseudo-explanations about Derren Brown are pure
>nonsense.
>I don't say it's bad ; yes, it's a fan group, and everybody can say
>what they want, it's ok.
>
>DB is very good to make people believe his effects are genuine
>hypnosis/NLP/psychology. Why not?, some people believe one can twist
>a spoon with the mind, or predict what will happen next year.
>But I think there's a little problem when people start to take
>courses, or buy lots of books to study NLP, because they think this
>will give them the "power" to reproduce DB effects.
>
>A fact ? : When I imagine someone thinking that Derren Brown can
>tell a word with some kind of "throat reading", I can't stop
>laughing !
>
>A last word : keep cool guys, it's christmas ... :-)
