Balance Test Scam. Watch how they fool people with this simple party trick
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- Опубликовано: 29 дек 2024
- Australian TV Expose the truth about energy/ Magnetic barcelets. This trick is also used by Companies selling ceramic Quantum Scalar Pendants. They make people believe that it gives them power and balance. These companies have fooled thousands of people and profited millions of dollars in a quack promise. Selling rocks to gullible people
My step son got one of these and swore it worked, he had great balance and strength and couldn't fall over. So I shoulder checked him and he fell on his arse. He threw it into the trash.
It might be placebo effect, that bracelet tricks your brain to release hormones that make you energized.
I paid for one too but i tried to break it apart and i only find a hologram sticker that doesn’t do anything but just shine
Shoulder check?
@@mrowlsssran into him with his shoulder like a lineman in football
500% strength increase. Either he had the strength of a fetus to begin with or hes the worlds strongest man now
😂🤣
Frr I don’t this people understand what 500% means
Ikr? A sixfold increase in strength is bonkers, if someone could prove a simple variable like this bracelet could improve strength by just 5% I’d be amazed, while 500% isn’t even remotely believable, let alone possible.
IT IS SIMPLE! To make the person lose their balance you angle the force slightly away from their body. To make them stand strong, you press slightly in the direction of their body. In other words a small amount of pressure away from your center of gravity tips you over. A small amount of pressure toward your center of gravity makes you stronger.
Well done.
The power of suggestion is quite real. If you believe you can do something, you are more than halfway to actually doing it. The opposite is true too, so monitor your thoughts as they come into view and attenuate the negative ones. At the same time, give thanks for all that you are and everything that surrounds you.
I remember people trying to sell this scam at a marathon race I was participating in. They claimed it had better balance, but the person pushing down on my arm did it different to get different results. The scammer doesn't just push down on your arm. They will push it outside to make you fall and make you feel unbalanced. Then with the scam bracelet, they push inwards to make you feel very balanced. I called out the scammer, but everyone got angry at me for it. Like I was the asshole. So, I let it go.
i have a struggle with negative thinking. I have struggles to fight it. it's 90 percent gone. who know. seems to have that affect on me
Placebo effect
@@deboraholiver3716that is definitely happening only in your mind
the science behind the bands is so sound. it's almost as if the science isn't even there!
I know someone who swallowed one of these and it killed him. But he died thinking he was in frequency.
How does one measure balance? Apparently that guy can, his increased by 500%.
He simply counted how many times he was dropped on his head each day.
Either the number decreased or traumatic brain injury has made it so he loses count.
Not sure which one it is though. I am leaning towards brain injury though.
"I'm not faking..."
Fact: It's more difficult to lie when someone breaks your jaw.
a chiropractor staked his "reputation"....
+euhominid I laughed at that too.. I looked him up. He is now a "property guru" LOL!
LOL fucking had me in tears.
love how they add a simple scientific experiment of a double blind test and completely debunk all of this crap.
60+ dollars a bracelet that’s the real power/magic. That’s makes the bank account really strong.
Ah man so embarrassing. We got caught with this scam too except their pitch was that wearing the band protected us from harmful RF frequencies coming from smartphones and Wi-Fi networks. Did the same test and everything 🤦🏾♂️
Let us connect a zipline between two skyscrappers and ask the owner to carry as many of the hologram as he wants and walk across the zipline from one end to the other.
Lmao 😂😂😂😂😂
This is hilarious
I remember seeing a kiosk in the mall with a salesman doing this experiment. I was around 15 at the time and even I knew it was BS when they did that balance trick
that guy selling the "healing" hologram should be in prison
Just shows scammers are everywhere!! Went to the home show where we came across people selling these sort of bracelets. So expensive too. Don't be fooled!!
Balance test bracelet used to "heal" people: 0% success
Now, asuming it's made of magnets, using them in the internals of a fan's motor to make it work as a generator to produce electricity: 100% success
quack chiropractors fail, electric engineers win!
This will really work well w/ my collection of snake oil, rabbit's foot, dream catchers, jade pendants, talismans & whatnot.
^_-
Don't forget healing crystals and essential oils :")
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This scam test was incomplete...The tester should compare/test the subjects 2 times successively, 1 time supposedly with/or without the bracelet and the second time also with/or without, so the tester can compare between the two states of the same individual, even if he doesn't know which one really has the bracelet in fact...
lol @ Australian Skeptic Society... ASS
$60 for a rubber bracelet that has a useless hologram inside it? Absolutely brilliant. Someone definitely laughed all the way to the bank.
It's physics, pull the arm straight down and its hard, pull the arm down at a slight and subtle angle away from the person and down they collapse.
"I'm not faking a 500% increase in strength and stability."
Wow, if it had that effect on me, that would be insane! I would literally be superman, lifting twenty times my own weight and break every world record in almost every sport which involves strength.
@there544 As to the 2nd test... that sounds wonderful. What was the size of the test group? What about the control group? How was the control group done? What were the criterion for the various effects?
cute girl explained it to me she did the balance test and bought 2 but once I paid for them I started thinking how she moved my arm so I asked my daughter to do the same thing at home with it on and I was not surprised that i fell the down I was thinking on the drive home how she moved me for balance and I realized I had just been suckered into it, & yes is it a PLACEBO effect or works the same way, guess I was just eager to buy it when the "beautiful girl" grabbed me way to close I GOT PLAYED
I guess if you believe it does, or believe it doesn't, your right. Placebo medications work on people, so why not a bracelet?
5:32 best line ever!
I'm out.
Someone tried to sell me a bracelet made of titanium charged with the 7. something frequency today for $275 and while it seemed to have amazing effects on me I just wasn’t buying it.
Makes sense chiropractors promote it given how both are complete quackery
@Bosiemuff
"It's not necessarily magnetic energy, it's frequency based energy"
Explain
@there544 Thanks. It's sometimes fun to "play" :)
500% strength increase, I can't fake that. But I could feel it, when I passed 374% of my normal strength, I knew this was legit.
Regardless it motivates ppl, it encourages the mind to pursue obselete things, and like a horoscope it gives them hope. The price however is the problem. The bracelet does provide a positive mental development.
I tried it and am very skeptical.... it works I dont know how
you dont have to fool people when they are willing to fool themselves
Mine worked for me. I had constant lower-back pain and felt stiff as a board all the time. I put the thing on and in about 20 minutes, I had no pain. I felt more limber, too. That was in May 2017. I rarely remove it...
David Toler
Cool, proof?
And this is what we call the placebo effect. It can have huge impact on people. That's a good thing, of course. But magic bracelets? Nope.
I came across these people at the mall doing the exact same trick. All there is to it is if you apply pressure towards their center of gravity or away from it.
500% strength and balance increase? sooo. basically if i can bench lets say 100 kg, i should be able to do like 500 kg whit that band? that's silly.
This type of stuff has been debunked before. I remember when all the malls had the "power band" kiosks and were shilling them like they actually made you stronger because they had a 'magic frequency' built into them that interacted with your body's frequency (pseudoscience mumbo jumbo). They would to pre and post tests and it appeared to work, but after the simplest of double blind tests, their whole business fell apart and they openly admitted that their product was not based in any real objective science. This video reminds me of that. I would like to see you do the same test with an apparatus that mechanically pins all the same joints in the exact same position in a accurate and repeatable and verifiable way, then have a mechanical arm with a force indicator like a torque arm that can give you a readout of the amount of force applied each time while also giving you angular data. Make it scientific. Otherwise there is not really any telling if that joint is in slightly a different position by a millameter or 2, enough to allow an apparent 'improvement' in range of motion but not enough to detect the trickery. Hell, maybe the dude just emotionally relaxed with the bongos causing muscle tension release. That doesn't mean magic music fixed him, it just meant he was tense and needed to be allowed to chill.
@there544 That's OK, I understand. But thank you for providing a discussion, and allowing both of our positions to be clearly, publicly displayed. I will go play with my LEGO actually, I have some commissions that could use some work (as well as some bta testing of sensor to do). Have a good day!
Was at a festival this weekend and they were selling these bracelets for 200$. It seems to me if this was scientifically proven this video was made 13 years ago. The stuff would’ve gone main stream by now.
Amazing Randi would have done the same test and shamed these snake oil salesmen onto a newer scam (there will ALWAYS be a newer scam).
thats bc ppl never cease to be stupid
@there544 Hmm... I'm not sure if it's accurate to say "you got to me". After all, I'm not the one who was using swearing or belittling to try to make my position appear stronger. I simple asked for evidence, which you failed to provide.
You're correct; beliefs can rarely be changed by evidence. This may explain why you find my requests for evidence so irritating. But I'm not doing this to "change your belief". I was doing it to demonstrate the irrational way in which some beliefs are supported.
@0:04 Billy Slater had power and balance, end of story. Stopped watching there. 🤬
It's just a sticker...
@there544 "by me saying these bands work, or negative ions in general is not hurting anyone". First... it may. By encouraging people to think that a problem can be solved in this way, they may wait longer (and in some cases too long) to get proper help. Second... if you really feel that you saying these things "is not hurting anyone", then why would you take offense to me doing exactly the same thing... and encouraging evidence & reason over simple belief?
Some people are stupid enough to believe ANYTHING you tell them.
They only tell the ones with money.
They got sued for stateing that it works now they have to make adds without saying it actualy works
Wife and I bought one each. I'm one of the worlds biggest sceptics (some even call me anti vax!) so tried the balance test independently of the salesman to prove that it didn't work. The balance test worked EVERY TIME 😳😳😳
500% strength increase is ridiculous.
What the fuck does he mean electric field of the body? And what does the magnet do actually?
The thing is that hologram on the bracelet is just a sticker
@Bosiemuff I, for one, am glad that there are "naysayers". The company is making claims for their product. It's only right to let people know before they shell out their cash for something like this that the evidence shows it doesn't work.
Holograms no! Magnets yes! Anions from nature neutralise build up of cations or positive ions which you get from what your on now
I didn't know Dave Mirra was also a chiropractor
u convince a mind 2 do anything
Hi, i won one of these at my school and everyone tells me that its fake. I keep it anyway though because it has a watch on it too. Anyone know some ways I can test it? Like this if you love birds!
2:26 look at his other arm farthest from the camera view. He moves it farther up to move the other arm farther back.
Remember pet rocks? The guy made over a million dollars.
zelen plav yes..it’s horrible , this idea
why was they sued common sense should have told folks wouldnt work its nothin to It no electronics nothin it's just a rubber band
its not even a scam it's a band that it
It's almost like it's bullshit. Think people, think!
This analysis is wrong , it is a scam not because it is a mind trick it's the physics in the test. It's all about leverage points.
^THIS
What an absolutely crap-tacular debunking this was. Sure, the blind test ×2 was damning.... But the standard DEMONSTRATION OF THE BRACELET'S POWERS OF BALANCE [shown in parts in this vid, but not fully, for reasons known only to the Channel 7 goons who put this to air] can easily be shown to be a "circus tent magician's trick" as it was aptly described @0:11.
"science words"
the reality is that people feel the results, they are visible, put in action, not psychological. So yea.. it works because we see it working . Point
wow sir 2:10 , "500 percent strength increase" that means if u could normaly bench135 pounds now you could bench 675..... wow
Where's the previous night's story?
I want to see how channel 7 credulously promoted this nonsense.
i don't buy those guys from skeptics society i trust people based it on science.
Does it heal? I don't know. Does it have an effect on your body? Yes. I was forced to try it about 10 years ago simply because I said it was a fake. But then I withdrew my view. It is certainly not placebo. I don't use one. I don't want one. But it's got something. BTW, it wasn't this brand. It was something else.
SO its a placebo! If it works when you see it then like its good enough am i right?
This whole product is a scam
well it is a placebo therefore to those who believe the claims, to some extent it will work
Idk with the product, which I've been sure for 2 years that it's a scam, my bench press went from 225 x10 to 240 x10 with same difficulty. 1 rep max went up in a matter of 2 wks. from 305 to 317.5 lb which is unheard of. So even tho it's a scam, it can still deliver results.
+nadmar bleh OH, so YOU HAVE ABSOLUTE PROOF THAT YOU REACHED YOUR NATURAL LIMIT AND CAN'T GO FURHTER? IT'S CALLED PLACEBO, MOTIVATIONAL VIDEOS ALSO WORK LIKE THAT
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My mother brought into this shit. I should probably start using using it against her when she makes stupid arguments.
Actually that would be 810 since it claims 500% increase! 135+(5*135)=810 BS!
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I think you are experiencing the placebo effect.
First of all yes power balance probably doesn’t work but they’re not doing the kinesiology test correctly that’s the first thing they need to learn how to do many people use these kinesiology tests to test many types of products just because this product didn’t work people are really offended that people are calling this a scam if anybody uses these kinesiology tests 100% false and you need to take this off the Internet
@there544 "you even said yourself why I didn't give evidence, because it is useless towards you". Actually... you are the one using the term 'belief'. All I have asked for is evidence. And yes, a preponderance of evidence *does*, in fact, change my position on an issue... that's exactly how science works. I was pointing out that since you keep using the term 'belief', I doubt evidence will change *your* position... but it still may others reading this.
a chiropractor... promoting quack science ...imagine my shock
@there544 You seem to miss the point. The reported results are not supported by evidence - period. The mechanism (for both "negative ions by waterfalls" and the Power Balance scam) are demonstrably wrong... as a little thought shows. A placebo effect is fine... but you're encouraging people to pay $60 for a rubber band to function as a placebo. If you want a placebo... use a 3 cent rubber band and cast spells over it. It will be precisely as effective... and far, far cheaper. Reality - it works.
Any long term practitioner of Aiki-Jujitsu or Aikido knows the bodies movement is based on physics. They change the angle of motion to fool you. He pulls down and slightly you backwards to show how off balance you are. Then with the bracelet instead of angling it back they go straight down showing how you changed. Naturally your going to not fall backward when the angle is applied straight downward.
😂😂😂😂 what a load of shite.
Ya its a scam
There are many products where this is 100% true
all this is is muscle memory
Nah. There was one particular AMAZEBALLZ demonstration that all the scammers performed at their booths at wellness expos etc. This useless farking _news_ report showed it in parts, and never showed how easily it can be debunked.... It was alluded to @2:58. It's all about the angles.
Sceptic Dude needs to hand in his sceptic badge, too. He should've been ALL OVER IT.
Sad
@Bosiemuff sorry but.. um.. was reading what they say 'the basis of the product in physics' and um.. you got badly pranked, because their theories not they're not even working but if they'd work it would make the universe a one hell of a place to live :) If you'd like I'll be happy to explain!
I think if the person believes the bracelet has power over them, they give it power. I don't see anything wrong with telling people this will help them, and if they believe it, it will. Those people will be happy. If you are a skeptic, however, it won't for you. the power of the mind is incredible. I would not mind being fooled into being strong! I think the reason it didn't work when no one knew who had it, is because everyone had doubt. Doubt will kill your happiness and power. I gave up doubt a long time ago, and I'm much happier for it!
So you're totally cool with these people selling customers their own mind power for $60?
I hate seeing people ask "what's the harm?"
Spreading incorrect information and stupidity does real harm. Take the current cupping trend. Impressionable people are doing that to their kids. Some people think the same thing about the incorrect anti-vaccination arguments, and those are doing real harm now.
Skeptic or not, don't spread the snake oil, don't spread the stupidity.
Pete Brown
Thank You
''What's the harm?''...it is bad science and cons people out of money.
Lisa Kempson Well said. A sceptic is usually not one who says: "all's possible, but i would like proof. " It's more like: "i don't believe it, till it's scientifically proven beyond a doubt". The last part, beyond a doubt, is the hardest to do for them, and they have a vested interest (their reputation) in seeing it fail. As Henry Ford said: whether you think you can, or you can't, you're right. Science is always catching up with reality. Reality does not come into existence when scientific proof is found, it was there before already. Scientists nowadays have a mindset of believing it's not true, until proven. The correct attitude should be, and possibly was in the past, it's all possible, we simply don't have proof yet according to the measures of the scientific method.
Many sports store sells this shit.
@there544 I've done research on it. As well as personal tests (they can be done by gradeschoolers for science fairs, it's an easy bunch of tests to run). As to me personally... I'm not a teenager. I'm a 43-year-old with a PhD in physics from University of Michigan, & I teach Astronomy & critical thinking at another university. The neat thing is that my background, and yours, aren't relevant - just do a controlled double-blind test.
They Don't Work.
Period.
These bands are made in China for around $1.00. Concerned about your health? Time to get real.
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Big deal! I got some magic beans that basically do the same thing!
Idk if it effects you or not it looks cool
Instructors: for a nice lesson in skepticism/critical thinking created specifically for this video, consider using this question set.
www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/RUclips-Skepticism-Power-Balance-4410333
FUCKIN BUSTED!!!
Well, it worked for Me. I am gonna buy another one
@@bentybaroon8938 I wear one around my cock.
@brdavis5 you even said yourself why I didn't give evidence, because it is useless towards you. and I'm not going to waste my time writing paragraph after paragraph to someone I don't know on youtube, and I'm also not gonna waste my time trying to convince a single person. And why spoil someones well being by telling them they are wrong, maybe they are and maybe not, but the band defiantly effects those people and you telling them otherwise can be hurtful. ( True or not)