Website review: Pierre Ysewijn - The Barnum Effect
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•80 reviews since Apr 19, 2007
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•homepage.bluewin.ch/Ysewijn/english_Barnum.ht...
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Phiducial rated 5 months ago- that's insane!! lolol.
- Weaksauce21 rated 5 months ago
- Was kinda obvious that the statements were general enough to apply to almost anyone.
- UncleTony rated 6 months ago
- Fuck astrology.
- urbycoz3 rated 6 months ago
- The point being made was pretty easy to second-guess a mile off. But still interesting.
- Kelseyg rated 7 months ago
- It was kind of annoying to have to click through the assessment just to read about the research when the outcome was immediately obvious. I don't like it when tests assume my gullibility to try to prove a point to me. Did anyone actually fall for this?
- KeitShifter rated 7 months ago
- Oh, you HAVE to try this one! :D "...But before telling you what the Barnum effect is all about, let's do a quick test (less than 5 minutes) that will allow you to get a better insight in who you really are and how you function."
- CakiCoka rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "people tend to accept vague and general personality descriptions as uniquely applicable to themselves without realising that the same description could be applied to just about anyone. This is the Forer effect." The Barnum effect seems to explain, in part at least, why so many, even highly intelligent, people believe that astrology, cartomancy, chiromancy, numerology, fortune telling, graphology, etc., "work". But scientific studies of these pseudosciences demonstrate that they are not valid personality assessment tools at all.
- mcclintock70 rated 8 months ago
- Wow! This is pretty accurate. try it for yourself! really taught me a lot about myself.
