The Barnum Effect - Why People Believe In Astrology And Psychics
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Millions of people around the world believe in astrology and horoscopes, fortune tellers and psychic mediums. But why might someone believe in such claims? One explanation is known as the Barnum effect, a psychological phenomenon which we have all likely fallen for at some point.
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I would never fall for nonsense, but that's because I'm a Leo and Leo's tend to be skeptical
That s a good one
The TV show Monk did a gag like that. Someone was murdering people with voodoo dolls, or so it seemed. They asked Randy if he was worried about it at all. He shook his head. "I'm a Pisces. We're not superstitious."
GG
*Hey, am a Leo too but I don't believe in Astrology...but however I love calling myself a Leo.... 😂😂*
Dammit... lol
Just from watching this video I can tell that you are a highly intelligent person that is sometimes too critical of yourself. You will also become romantically rich or whatever in the next few weeks. Please donate €5 to hear more.
donation link pls
- Cogito - I am picking up that you are a genuine and honest person, but you are shy and sometimes lack of self confidence. Sarcasm could be your way of masking social anxiety. But understand that the most important thing is to be yourself and let people love you for you... Aha.
Nope, that's not psychic, that's just basic human nature 😂😂😂
Yes
this is a legendary comment and should never be removed.
The Barnum effect also applies to a plethora of videos on RUclips with titles such as “10 Signs you’re a genius!” or “Signs you have a rare INJP personality” or “Signs you are creative” etc and the masses fall for it as smooth as butter melts at room temperature.
Brainybutnotgeeky. That’s something an INTJ would say actually
Lol i came from that kind of video
And i remembered the barnum effect
Brainybutnotgeeky. Myers-Briggs personality types are more personal though. The thing that makes MBTI gimmicky is that it’s mostly restating things you already know about yourself. They are separate from things like astrology though in terms of accuracy. It’s all based on how you function as a person
psych2go being a prime example. actually trash YT channel because they promote self diagnosis and diagnosis of other people using false methods. extremely harmful
@@trinitytorres379 Actually, Meyers Briggs was not created by psychologists and has no scientific backing. It was proven false by actual experts in the field countless times
Who else read it as astronomy and physics?
How else are we s’posed to read it?
That's how I fell here
How did you know 😦
Same
I believe in physics. Now I’m ashamed.
"You like to meet interesting people and you can be a lot of fun but you really appreciate your alone time and you don't always feel like being surrounded by people."
That kind of BS
@Thelondonbadger This kinda sounds like good advice tho
Israel Wolstein that’s actually Libra.
@Thelondonbadger your taking the mic a bit, people who belive in star signs and fate, normally like a idea of what's coming, I used to read star signs but went of them because I never connected much to it
Studies Only read these, perfect examples of how astrology fits people and their body shapes. If you don’t look at all these, and don’t consider astrology, you’re a fool.
m.imgur.com/a/kHm7qu5
As an introvert. this is true
I think everyone has fallen victim to the Barnum effect.
no you can recognize it but not fall for it though. eg. I don't obviously believe in astrology but I've read them before and I can relate somewhat to a vague statement it says about my sign. But I know it's horseshit. I know I could read any sign to anyone and they would say "yeah that's me"
Anyone who's not very young mentally will recognise the vague nature of the statements, the rest will fall victim like you said
Lol these 2 didn't get the joke
Sidney Hale not me
@@Cezkarma what joke
I am a rational person, so I don't believe the fortunes in fortune cookies. However, I really like the cookies. They remind me of vanilla wafers. I always read the fortunes, even though I discredit their validity. This, I think, is consistent with my personality as an Aquarius. Also, I'm engaged to my umbrella. Is that normal?
As an Aquarius, I too like those wafers and have fun reading their fortunes. I also have an interpersonal relationship, but with my phone instead of my umbrella. Is that weird? Maybe we're connected after all!
(because too many people will take this the wrong way, this is definitely a joke)
Kek
Yes guys. It's perfectly normal for you! You are actually the weirdos of the zodiac! Congratulations!
David Henderson you aren’t rational. You have chosen to cement your right brain. And use the left only.
😂😂😂😂😂
You might confuse vague statements that can be true for most people as accurate descriptions of yourself, but with some mental effort you can learn to recognise them and avoid making rash decisions based on them. Trust your loyal friends to point out to you the true qualities you posses, and avoid falling prey to deceptive scams. Your lucky number this week is 17.
And your horoscope states that you're probably reading this right now with your eyes
@@hannahpocock4152 XD
Uri Tibon ever had a proper reading? I mean like actual skeptics who used to say such shit and had their mind blown AFTER a proper reading which is NOTHING General? Doubt it.
Touche
@@hannahpocock4152 OOhh! Thanks for letting me know. Had no idea.
"You are breathing"
Astrology people:*surprised pikachu face*
@@sharolerato8611 did they ask tho
Reminds me of a TV advert, many years ago, where a young lady says to a young man "From what I've seen of you at this party, I'd say you are a Sagittarius.""I am. That's amazing. How did you work that out?" "Well it is your birthday party."
PLEASE! NO ONE IS MADE UP OF ONE SIGN. A PERSON IS USUALLY MADE OF SEVERAL SIGNS. DID YOU KNOW THAT A SIGN IS SIMPLY A SPECIFIC ATTITUDE TOWARD THINGS IN LIFE. HOW MANY KINDS OF ATTITUDES DO YOU HAVE???
@@astroseer You believe in that starsign bullshit? How the hell does a flaming ball of hydrogen and helium 500 lightyears away affect earth? How does the gravitational alignment of planets affect personality?
@@partiallyfrozen3425 it's simple, most star readings are off because over 3000 years the stars lagged behind a bit so most people are actually tge starsign behind what they thought they were
@@potatoheadpokemario1931 What if a star went super nova 500 years ago, but we only saw it today, wouldn't that mean that some starsigns are physically impossible because the star literally does not exist anymore? People who claim to be a starsign of a supernova star could not be, because the star had already gone supernova over 500 years ago and the light only just reached earth. Is the 'starsign energy' bound by the speed of light?
@@partiallyfrozen3425 it's based on when the light gets to earth, so events that happened 500 years ago don't effect us unless it's on a star less than 500 lightyears away
It's why in the past, it was called "sooth saying" Because they will most often tell you what you want to hear not advice you actually need!
TRULYMORTAL Clever, but untrue.
The English term “soothsayer” comes from an Old English term “soosagu” which means “speaking the truth”. Literally, it can be translated as truth sayer.
I had a live reading with a psychic and she said that I have problems and I’m stuck on the girl I was in my last relationship with. I was confused because I’ve never been in a relationship at the time of doing the reading so I was wondering who she was talking about. She then told me I was very depressed, I was at one of the happier moments in my life at the time. She said I have problems sleeping and that there is something that stand over me “a darkness” while a sleep. I sleep like a baby. I think the darkness she was referring too is the room. Since the lights are off. So I can… you know sleep. Everything was so general, I literally was so upset at myself for wasting my money.
It's called cold reading and it's the psychic grifters number one go to
I fell prey to it. When I was 22 I went to a fortune teller. They said I had trouble sleeping and I would live until I was 81 years old. And I would be married late 20’s and start a family in early 30’s. I didn’t get married until 39. Still have no kids. And I never had trouble sleeping I just tried to believe it.
wow! Did you just equate some fortune teller to astrology?? Ever had a proper birth chart reading???!!!!
@@GGora did you just equate some astrology to fortune telling? Have you ever had a proper tarot reading?
@@strangethings23 I have had all of them yes. And they are VERY different ways we use in order to decipher the codes within the matrix. I am going to present all of these ways and also HOW to hack these codes, YUP. YOU heard that.
@@GGora they're all equally dumb
Fortunetelling is not what a real astrologer does. They explain you to yourself and make suggestions on how to live your life. This will make total sense to you
"You need food to stay alive"
"You might feel sleepy, If you don't sleep any for 24 hours"
yes, those occult workers like tarot readers give advice but before that they'll actually give you a reading if they're legit and your money's worth goes to use.
“Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes”
Stars,moon,sun just vibing and performing their universal purpose
Astrologers: this must mean something about your birth,career,personality and love life.
The ad for this video was "Psychic Answers", a website for psychic consulting. I swear RUclips is taking the piss out of your videos
nah, it is just how algorithm tries to fetch ad based on topic of video it decided after running its code
there are probably not as many business advertising how to cope against Barnum effect, so it attempted to fetch something else close to this topic discussed in video
I once got a fortune-cookie that said that my passenger-side rear tire was about 15 PSI low. It was oddly specific.
Haha, a synchronicity ig? But i believe fortune cookies are absolute bull crap.
@@alicemeliksetian7981 You guys try your best to falsify spiritual stuffs but guess what? They are real, very real.
😅😅😅
It's weird how many people are gullible
@Mr. 8-Bit Doggo I think it's more about lazy thinking. People rarely bother to look into anything
The irony is people fall for things, because in reality truth is in all things at some level, so we find these truths, the problem arrives when we ignore the lies in all of things too, that's called self deception, which leads to bad choices, balance is key, knowl3dge is power, and wisdom is how to use it in your unique life😊
bewmdogg weirder still is how many people don’t even look into astrology.
They just believe what they like even if it has no evidence.
PERKE people match their signs, so that’s evidence, so it’s not a belief.
When a girl tells you to check your horoscope before dating.
That's when you decide whether she's hot enough to get into the horoscope business. Writer her something along the lines of, "You will meat a very interesting person, and love is just around the corner. By the way, marry ZybeZ."
@@michaelmccarty1327 xd
that’s a clear sign you should just leave her
That's when you run.
i’d just leave 💀💀
Someone who believed in Astrology once tried to convince me and told me something about myself based on my sign. I felt very vindicated when I was able to reply, "Absolutely not. If I was the kind of person who sets his mind to something and gets it done, would I still be working at Subway?"
They failed you because they were trying to explain who you are by referring to one sign, There are 10 heavenly bodies moving through the heavens all the time. when you were born these planets were found in different signs of the zodiac.Therefore these different signs explain all your various attitudes of your nature. this can be easily proven by a competent astrologer.
@@astroseerYou believe in fairy tales, idiot. Do you believe in the tooth fairy too?
lol tht BuzzFeed reference though. Cool video! I've always doubted the "results" as they were all so positive and not me.
watched that psychic ad at the beginning trying not to laugh
Something about an app? 😂
But predicting the future is a gift
I think whether true or not people tend to think " i can be like that" rather than " i am"
I like myself
I think Steven Fry explained it best while he and Dr. House were at a Mentalist show. The guy said that he "picked up on someone with a strong sense of humor." and Hugh just looks up and asks everyone who felt they didn't have a good sense of humor to raise their hand.
Half the time it's generic stuff that everyone wants to believe about themselves, and relies on the blindspot people have on asking themselves whether or not the information could also pertain to someone else. A good exercise is to take a horoscope reading and read every single one. You'll notice that one says "You're compassionate, smart, and daring" while another says "You're caring, intelligent, and brave."
I came here because I am a fanatic of astrology and everything resonates but after my classmate got drunk with me and mentioned this, none of those readings resonates anymore. Ahhh I hate intelligent people. That one made me look dumb 😂
I wish my family and friends who believe in astrology and other pseudoscience crap would watch this. Great video.
Factual information goes in one ear and out the other in people that believe in pseudosciences
I feel your pain
I fell for them and I regret a lot now. Mediums and fortune tellers love preying on people going through grief. I was in grad school and a professor tried telling me about the effect. I should’ve listened … people grieving want a way to speak to their parents again or a lost loved one. I got to the point of going to mediums so much that I thought they were friends , but in reality they told me things to scare me and get more money. I’m tempted to go back to school to just study this effect more , but I’ll do some research at least on my own.
Yup same here my mom kinda warned me I just have to pick myself back up and make my own life
yes that’s the way to do it .
What is unique about our personality isn’t isolated traits or characteristics but a combination of those. The test certainly misses that. Most would claim to be honest, sensitive, compassionate, because most often they’re! You’ll see more helpful strangers in your life than violent criminals
I do see more selfish pricks than helpful strangers though.
@@92brunod That's because negative traits/actions tend to leave a much bigger impression than positive ones. For example if you stay at a hotel and 97 % of your experience there is satisfying while the remaining 3 % are not meeting your expectations, guess which part you will mention first if asked to give your stay a review. Most people will focus on the 3 % that were bad. Or let's say you ask a stranger for directions. If the stranger politely answers you thank them and move on with your life, but if they for some reason says "fuck you, find the way there yourself" you will remember that person far longer compared to the person who helped you.
@@Skeppsvrak Nope. There just are more selfish pricks than helpful strangers. You can see it in their behaviour in general. And that's in a context were being a shitty person is frowned upon. Most people would be absolute assholes if they could.
I actually remember MUCH MUCH more people who were nice and helpful, than assholes. They just aren't as many.
Same with the hotel, if it's 97% satisfying I'll end up loving it and will completely forget the 3% that wasn't good. Even if I complain about the bad I'd get a good impression.
@@92brunod I think you're looking at it the wrong way. To circle back to the example about asking a stranger for directions, a huge majority of people would help you if they could and if not they'd at least answer politely that they don't know how to get there.
I'm fairly certain you would have to ask plenty of random strangers before you find someone that would respond with something rude (unless you do it in a really shitty neighbourhood where everyone are miserable and only care for themselves).
My point is that most people are nice if you give them a chance.
Even more people believe that governments and politicians have their best interest at heart.
I don't believe in the Barnum effect because the Barnum effect told me I don't believe in it.
Wow this is so interesting! I think I've just found a new great RUclips channel to binge!
Some basically people want to believe in something more and they'll fall for anything.
I find the history behind astrology is far more interesting than "what it means". It's ancient, like older than all the current practiced religions ancient and pre-dates writing. What inspired people millennia ago to develop it? And what made people pass it down so strongly? And why, unlike other ancient religions, is it still widely believed today? It's an interesting topic I think is overshadowed by people arguing over if it's real, or why someone believes it.
Thanks so much for educating me, now I feel like I finally have a good response to whenver some random dude asks what my star sign is
Got an advertisement for a "psychic advisor" app before this. 🤦♂️
I saw a meme once that said:
“I text bitches at 3:33 or 11:11 so they can think the universe is sending me” 😂
Introvertness hype ..ie.. most people think that they are introvert and these statements also increases the intensity of the feeling ..as u know.. introvertness is in trend 😶 sad ... Not everyone is introvert ... But everyone analyse himself or herself intj or fj in mbti 😐
A Psychic Donna ad played before this video
lol.
I always knew that those statements are generic description. But I enjoyed this video as it finally gives me a name to this theory.
Everybody gangsta till astrology tells you how your childhood was
It all fake partner
After the video finished, RUclips showed me an ad for psychics!
Mbti and jungian typography is probably what gets me most, although I also tend to remain incredibly skeptical of most of my results.
I believe the Barnum Effect is real but it only really fits sun sign horoscopes.
If people knew how complex it can get, I don’t think they could correlate it to this.
Ultimately, a person just isn’t going to get it if they don’t make an honest effort to learn it for themselves, beyond just sun, moon, and rising signs.
100% agree. It's extremely complex. The problem is most people believe they know what it's about without making any effort to actually study it, in which it takes a long time to grasp the depths and complexity of it. Daily magazine horoscopes and sun sign astrology is total BS to a real astrologer and the astrological community are exhausted with the general publics obsession with these watered-down tropes.
Does the Barnum effect explain the apparent (i.e., perceived) specificity and accuracy of personality descriptions in astrological natal birth charts?
Clearly not. I’ve been reading charts of 90 plus strangers from 22 nations. All online, on a public platform and my interaction w these people is at zero. Check my fiverr link and my reviews on my channel. These random strangers have no images or names. My readings are scarily accurate and detailed. Include timing of events. Past and future as well. Feedbacks are so positive re accuracy that even scares me at times. This is yet another jargon and BS D grade scientists use in order to explain a reality they are too stupid or lazy to do a research on or even listen to those of us who have.
Your profile pic is creeping me out
Giti Oracle lol you really left a comment just to say "my scam is very legit, logic is stupid, check my fiverr out"
@@PsionixYT and next time, do look at the LEVEL of people you are trying to address. I am not in level of 'LOL" sorta comments. Please stick to your LEVEL.
@@PsionixYT eally sorry for you if that’s what you perceived. My “ fiverr” study which has taken 1000s of hours and I’m beyond proud of it, is in collaboration with several MIT data scientists and maybe if you had the brain, you’d be interested in checking it out after it is published. REAL scientists are proud of what I’ve done, instead of D grade condescending arrogant ignorant scientists of today, people in your level, quite clearly, who know nothing about a topic and are too lazy to research and study and inform themselves on a topic which as taken me 7 years, YET, have the audacity to comment on it! Truly, you couldn’t come to comprehend how despicable of a level you belong to and consider yourself lucky that you are incapable of such basic human perceptions. You couldn’t live with yourself if you had.
A fortune teller (She had said some secrets that in the deep of my mind which I never tell others, and many of the predictions that she said before had come true now ) who I have been believed so much said that I had lost the chance to pass the test (I want to transfer to another college). Furthermore, she told me that I should not get married in the future, for the reason that I would bring some bad effects to him(I am just 20 years old and never fall in love before, why tell me so cruel prediction ㅠ_ㅠ). After hearing her predictions, I've been felt great depression until now, because I don't look forward to my future, I still feel worried now. I am studying hard for my transferring test now, but I cried for many times when I recalling her predictions. Do I fell victim to the Barnum Effect? The only thing that I can do now is to believe in myself. I get some comfort after watching this video, thanks to Smart by Design. Hope someone to encourage me...
use reverse psychoIIogy at yourseIf by think what she says are reversed
Kyosuke Machii 😊 thank you ~~
I had persuaded myself that she want to encourage me by saying that words, just like the reverse psychology!
@Thelondonbadger i am female
I really worried about what she said three months ago,but now i know that she is just an acumen observer, just like you said,she is a scam artist!
Thanks for your response~~^^
@Thelondonbadger i am twenty and i am from 🇹🇼 (⬅️do you know it?😂)
Are you from London?
Astrology - make em pay to learn more about how human they are.
those stats are wrong. theyre taking the percentage of the TOTAL population instead of the percentage of the ppl who actually took the poll.
Me: haha zodiac dumb
Also me: still hopes that I can turn into a dragon and firebend because I was born in the year of the dragon in the chinese zodiac.
Dracarys
Are you Pisces?
@@Player-gx1eonope it fake
I thought the title said "why people believe in astrology and physics," and I was curious what those two had in common since one is a genuine science and one is a psudo science. But, yeah, psychics makes a ton more sense.
I misread "physics" too. But I thought it made sense. How can one believe both in science AND astrology at the same time? (And not spot the discrepancy there)
I don't want to believe in astrology. But sometimes I cant help but notice that certain signs are similar
Because of the Barnum effect... I personally notice it is almost always totally wrong!
Do you think it might be confirmation bias ?
"And now, you know better"
If someone wants to believe in something true or false let them it does not affect you unless you let it
Exactly
I hope I remember these Barnum effect words when a friend ask what my sign is! Getting old and the brain is dying
honestly even if its fake its nice to get "personalized" advice when u need it. advice is advice and if its helping someone why not?
??why would u want fake advice?also some people are to the extreme about it and live by fake advice(choose friends and partners based on signs and moons)
If you can’t use common sense or logic to advice urself and are cool with some dumbass reading u cards or signs and telling u a bunch of bullshit o make u feel better then u are a fucking stupid fuck
You'd rather take pleasant lies than harsh truths?
Ask me anything
I'll tell you something
I know nothing
"there are still endless mysteries we dont understand about the universe, but astrology is dumb just cause"
"The Wisdom of the Enneagram" book, scored as a #5, read the whole chapter on them, thought it was more convincing due to it's darker themes, and having more "specific-but-general" type of statements. But I was skeptical enough to doubt it if it was merely a projection of what I wanted to see.
someone who claim to be a psychic do the said "reading" about me. and he mumble stuffs. i told the person, "thats too generic. even my friend over here feel that way. do you have something more espicific? Something that i dont know yet?"
then he goes mad.
Cold reading. That's why the best cold readers start with a large group of people. The more people in the group the more they can get a gullible person to raise their hand, then divert to another person claiming that the spirit left or some other bogus crap.
After a major upset in my life when I was about 25 I was persuaded to go to a "psychic" by a girlfriend. She did the usual trick of seeming to state things by asking questions. She was very plausible. However, at the end she looked at me and said "You are very troubled." Then she just took my hands and held them, in silence, with her eyes closed. All my tension drained away and for the first time for weeks I felt peaceful. That feeling remained - indeed I can still recall it vaguely now, so amazing was it - and from that evening I was able to get on with my life. I don't believe in "fortune telling" and I think that she was in essence a kind and highly intelligent lady, who simply by listening and somehow sort of connecting with me was able to give me peace. I don't know how she did it, and do not believe it was paranormal. But she had an empathy, a skill of some sort, that certainly worked with me. So, not all bad, perhaps?
I’ve shown this video and videos of Neil degrasse Tyson debunking astrology to a group of people I know that genuinely believe in this stuff and they still choose to believe in astrology... I had no choice but to call them stupid
You're too patient with idiots who believe in these things. You are a very independent thinker. You must be an Aries.
@@RealLenny lol
Presenting facts to delusional people unfortunately doesn't work. They have to "feel" or experience something that changes their beliefs because their thought processes aren't based upon rational thought
Neil DeGrasse Tyson trying to debunk a discipline he's never made any effort to study is like me trying to debunk astrophysics without a physics degree. It's not possible to speak on something with authority without having made the effort to understand it and astrology is infinitely more complex than sun signs and newspaper horoscopes. It takes a long time and a lot of effort to understand it. We in the astrological community, real astrologers, denounce Sun sign astrology and magazine horoscopes as they are meaningless, watered-down tropes for weak minds. They have nothing to do with the very real art and discipline of astrology.
@@sonja7halcyon astrology has been rejected by the scientific community. Get over yourselves. It's not real
About 5 years ago a fortune cookie said 'luxurious surroundings will soon be yours'. So much for that. Beyond the barnum effect, add cold and warm reading, if the astrologer/psychic meets you or can find anything about you from, say, your social media activity.
Once upon a time, before advances in genetics, astrology was a compelling hypothesis: There were lots of couples, usually with lots of children each, but the children were all different, except when they weren't. But even most twins are only fraternal. But all children from single births are only fraternal. Why? It seems reasonable to assume, that there is only ever a very narrow window of opportunity for a child to be born with specific characteristics, so narrow in fact, that only in the minority of twin births children are both born in the same period resulting in their characteristics. Since time was measured astronomically, it would be natural to assume that a science of astrology were possible.
At that point, the usual tragedy would have followed. People devoted to genuine scientific thought would have made no progress in this field of study, so that it would have fallen to the usual suspects. To be fair, astrologers to absolute monarchs risked their lives, so they would have done their utmost to be worthy advisers, regardless of how their advice was actually derived.
Without making a statement as to whether real psychics exist, most people today advertising themselves as such will at least be motivated to give the best advice they can, if only to get repeat business, so for those who can't handle their own lives it is entirely possible that even consulting a fake psychic will be money well spent. One would wish she same were true from buying a newspaper …
Astrology gives people a feeling of certainty and safety. The unknown and uncertain can freak people out. It is easier to believe than to question it and stress about it.
Ouch so this is how it all started with me
oooof you know im swaying to believe this but im learning tarot reading, read my friends cards a few days ago and got one that mentioned someone wasn't sure about the relationship, and one that he would be doing rougery type stuff, at least thats how i read the cards, anyways, next day were playing ninja storm 2 and he's all frustrated because he called a girl cute through fb and she told his GF. weird ass experience, and its not the first. idk i believe the barnum effect is real, because one of his cards was about his past, mentioned he was a happy kid but had to mature fast, made sense, hes the oldest, went to jail at an early age and such so he grew up quick. things like that i see as a barnum, because it can apply to everyone. but idk guys, tarot reading has had too many coincidences for me to disregard as a psychology effect, i wont deny that its not true, like the whole pendulum thing or the quija board moving because our muscle are doing this reflex thingy. interesting vid.
The tarot is real! I don’t care what anyone saids, tooo many freaky things I’ve read from it and it came true. TOO MANY THINGS!!!!
@@Onlylettuce92 confirmation bias.
just commented something similar, ty
i read the title as physics and not psychics and i was like "what's wrong with physics?"
One day in San Francisco I was walking through 24th and Mission and I was approached by a fortune teller and she said your heart tells you something and your mind told you something else and you don't know which one to listen to and then she told me she would give me a reading I told her I had no money and she told me to come back when I did I never did of course because I am too smart for this kind of trick I knew it was a scam
I took the test in college, and the same results happened then too.
"BUZZQUIZ" I'm fucking dead. Lol.
I came here after watching a comic bashing Astrology, but here they are.
This is how much kasamba.com trusts people, they just put out an ad for "Psychic for you" before a psychic bashing scientific result.
I am pretty sure they would've got some hits tho.
Varun thakur right? 😂
@@vidushisrivastava2876
Tell me you haven't subscribed to kasamba yet!?!
LOL YEAH .
It's actually hysterical how accurate people think these horoscopes.
I wonder how brain keeps itself in a bubble of comfort zone of beleiving in certain set of rules.
Video was excellent...
After watching this video, I went to take a horoscope test, twice. The first time I took it, I just answered randomly. The second time, I chose my honest answers. And it correctly predicted/indicated my horoscope on the second time (but not the first). I was impressed.
bullshitt
I clicked Bc I thought it said astronomy and physics
So, it means you don't believe in astrology, right?
Just to confirm.
Yeah I too wanted to know why those gullible fools believe in astronomy and physics...
I wish all the people who keep falling for the Enneagram would realize it's just as arbitrary as the zodiac descriptions.
very nice explanation, tnx
2 of my close friends struggle to understand this concept so they always try to force conversations about pro sports being rigged, how all numbers form some pattern, and other claims of mysticism
Stupid people fall for such stuff. Now I gotta leave as there are hot singles in my area dying to meet me
Awesome channel👌
The funniest part to me is 2:20... basically it is a statement people would self identify with, but if it were actually true, they wouldn't be as inclined to believe the BS assessment they were handed. It reminds me a lot of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Horoscopes have been debunked because of the Goss twins. One is cool and the other...not so much...
...you decide?
What this proves is how susceptible people are to the Barnum effect and it's use in commercial astrology and fake psychics. However, this does not actually disprove real astrology and real psychics. I won't speak on psychics as it's not my area of expertise, but I have 10 years experience with astrology after being a hardcore skeptic of it for my whole life previous to 10 years ago, and still to this day it astonishes me and challenges the skeptic in me. The problem is that most people think they know what astrology is, as I did, without having spent any genuine time and effort in trying to understand what it is. Trying to disprove astrology without knowing anything about it in depth, is akin to trying to disprove the results of a medical study published by a peer-reviewed journal without having any training or education in medicine. It's just not possible because you cannot speak on the subject in the first place. If you don't know what you're trying to disprove, how can you disprove it? Any real astrologer will tell you that Sun sign astrology and magazine horoscopes are complete BS and real astrologers are exhausted with the publics obsession with these watered-down tropes. Astrology is actually extremely complex and takes a long time to understand. I wish more people would take some time to try to understand it before judging it. Unfortunately, to try to understand it you need to be willing to take it seriously in the first place, and study it like you would any other discipline or art form. Most are unwilling, so we get this watered-down debunking BS in tandem with the watered-down astrology BS.
It happens in culture too. That’s why stereotyping traits can be counter productive, however I’m sure it has its usefulness somewhere… as conjecture maybe.
Just now i got an ad that said "THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS. NO HASARDS." Damn bro stop it
I have insanely good luck with fortune cookies. When i was on my second date with my wife, her fortune cookie said "you are sitting across from the love of your life" I owe whoever wrote that a huge thank you.
This is how the Enneagram seems to work.
How do you rate the comparison of psychological testing to the Barnum Effect / Horoscopes and Fortune Tellers? I took the MMPI many years ago at the VA to have recently learned that my test results were entered into my medical records, by a different name, days before I was administer the actual testing. The VHA defends this anomaly by claiming special psychic, clairvoyant, abilities. It just so happens that I had scored the same as Mr. Johnson; so they say. The VHA thus claims that "Mr. Johnson" was a typing error. But, again, as it turns out there wasn't a Mr. Johnson taking any psychological testing the day of or days before Mr. Johnson's results were entered into my medical records. Mr. Johnson's test results were copy and pasted from a prewritten template. So; if psychological testing is foreseeable enough to predict an outcome before administering the tests then wouldn't those test scores be the norm and thus invalid, if not the norm? If more people than not score "above average" on the validity scale then wouldn't that invalidate the test scoring? Once more, if my test results are predictable enough to be scored prior to administering such tests then shouldn't I have scored within the normal range: of which Mr. Johnson (I) somehow didn't?
Awesome video
Thanks Linkard!
Great vid. Does the Barnum effect play into other areas of life when people are trying to build trust quickly?
Weeks before my daughter was born, I had a chinese fortune cookie, which said: You should enjoy the small freedom.
Personality tests are a bit different as we all know you're going to retry it until you get a question you like
Yeah except Astrology is nothing like the shit you see on social media. REAL astrology has so many factors, no two personality descriptions can be the same. The amount of depth that goes into a chart reading is way too deep for the Barnum effect to take place. Especially if it focuses on both positive AND negative traits of a placement's effect on your personality.
Also, mundane astrology.
Astrology and general horoscope aren't the same thing....
Great content! I knew it was bullshit and this reconsolidated my belief.
idk bro, I'm a libra and libra are well known to like breathing, good food and having fun with friends... which I do !! Isn't it amazing how accurate it is ?
Who is watching after dhruv vedio
But if some traits are common for all then how can we negate them for wrong. yes it's a scam. But the statements are not false like 'you need social validation' . Or maybe be we're just confused between what we want to be and what we're now. Good video though.
Good Job!!! :D
After this video ended, there was an ad of kasamba, where people can find psychics. Irony. RUclips algorithm fell for the Barnum effect.
Oh, yes I fall those kinds of statements, but in some time I enjoyed it.
I know someone in the house that does 'tarot readings' for a living and I can't help but cringe everytime. LOL