The Skeptic Zone #689 - 19.December.2021

The Skeptic Zone

Dec 18, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast

--:--

Listen in podcast apps:

Episode description

0:00:00 Introduction
Richard Saunders The Great Australian Prediction Project

From the pages of 'The Skeptic', the journal from Australian Skeptics, comes the long awaited offical report into the accuracy of so-called "psychic predictions". Find out the background, the methodology and the all important results and conclusions.

Read by Adrienne Hill and Richard Saunders.

00:02:14: The Great Aust. Psychic Prediction Project
00:05:19: History of Prophecies
00:10:37: The Project
00:13:34: Methodology
00:17:53: The Flow of Time
00:19:49: Assessing the Predictions
00:23:03: Correct or Wrong
00:27:41: Too Vague
00:30:30: Expected
00:32:34: Unknown
00:33:50: Many Predictions in One
00:34:56: Easy to Predict but Difficult to Analyse
00:36:29: Predictable Complaints
00:43:10: Self-Assessment, Cherry Picking and Shoehorning
00:49:12: They did not see that coming
00:50:22: Control Group
00:51:54: If predictions worked as claimed
00:54:08: Looking into the Future
00:55:57: Conclusions
00:58:41: Some Statistics
00:59:14: Credits
01:00:10: About The Author